Haruko Sugimura
Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子, Sugimura Haruko, January 6, 1909 – April 4, 1997) was a Japanese stage and film actress, best known for her appearances in the films of Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.
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 Haruko Sugimura in May 1953. | |
| Born | January 6, 1909 Hiroshima, Japan |
| Died | April 4, 1997 (aged 88) Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1927–1995 |
Born in Hiroshima, she joined the Tsukiji Shōgekijō (Tsukiji Little Theatre), Tokyo, in 1927, and later co-founded the Bungakuza theatre company.[1][2] She made her film debut in 1932 in Eizo Tanaka's Namiko (1932).[lower-alpha 1] In the West, her most famous role was that of Shige, the elderly couple's hairdresser daughter in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953).[3] Other important film roles include Naruse's Late Chrysanthemums (1954) and Tadashi Imai's An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953).[5] For her film performances, she received the Blue Ribbon Award, the Kinema Junpo Award and the Mainichi Film Award.
On stage, she was successful as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Gertrude in Hamlet and Asako Kageyama in Yukio Mishima's Rokumeikan.[3] Her most popular and often repeated stage role was Kei Nunobiki in Kaoru Morimoto's A Woman's Life.[2] In 1995 she refused the Order of Culture award.[3]
Filmography
Film
- Namiko (1932)
- Asakusa no hi (1937)
- Uguisu (1938)
- Wedding Day (1940)
- Okumura Ioko (1940)
- Spring on Leper's Island (1940)
- Ōhinata-mura (1940)
- Waga ai no ki (1941)
- Shirasagi (1941)
- Jirō monogatari (1941)
- Nankai no hanataba (1942) - Nobuko Hotta
- Haha no chizu (1942) - Isano Kishi
- Gekiryu (1944)
- Army (1944) - Setsu
- Kanjōkai no bara (1945)
- Umi no yobu koe (1945)
- Ōsone-ke no ashita (1946) - Fusako Ōsone
- Urashima Tarō no kōei (1946)
- No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) - Madame Noge, Ryukichi's mother
- Yottsu no koi no monogatari (1947) - Yukiko's mother (episode 1)
- Joen (1947)
- Haru no mezame (1947)
- Sanbon yubi no otoko (1947) - Itoko
- Yuwaku (1948) - Tokie
- Te o tsunagu kora (1948)
- Idainaru X (1948) - Taka
- Toki no teizo: zengohen (1948)
- Kurogumo kaido (1948)
- Koku'un kaido (1948)
- Beni imada kiezu (1949)
- Yotsuya kaidan (1949) - Omaki
- Shinshaku Yotsuya kaidan: kōhen (1949) - Omaki
- Late Spring (1949) - Masa Taguchi
- Onna no shiki (1950)
- Until We Meet Again (1950) - Ono Suga
- Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950) - Kohagi Nakamura
- Eriko to tomoni Part I + II (1951) - Harue Matsumura
- Jiyū gakkō (1951)
- Early Summer (1951) - Tami Yabe
- Fireworks Over the Sea (1951) - Kono Kujirai
- Repast (1951) - Matsu Murata, Michiyo's mother
- Inochi uruwashi (1951) - Mine Imura
- Seishun kaigi (1952) - Tamiyo
- Genroku suikoden (1952) - Onui
- Kaze futatabi (1952)
- Kin no tamago: Golden girl (1952) - Tsuruko Fujimura
- Wakai hito (1952)
- Senba zuru (1953) - Chikako Kurimoto
- Montenrupa: Bokyo no uta (1953)
- Kimi ni sasageshi inochi nariseba (1953)
- Tokyo Story (1953) - Shige Kaneko
- Life of a Woman (1953) - Tamae, Shintaro's mother
- An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) - O-Hatsu (story 3)
- Geisha Konatsu (1954) - Raku Kamioka
- Late Chrysanthemums (1954) - Kin
- Shunkin monogatari (1954) - Oei
- Kunsho (1954)
- Meiji ichidai onna (1955) - Ohide
- Keisatsu Nikki (1955) - Moyo Sugita, a go-between
- Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955) - Princess Yen-chun
- Geisha Konatsu: Hitori neru yo no Konatsu (1955) - Raku Kamioka
- She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) - Masao's mother
- Aogashima no kodomotachi - Onna kyōshi no kiroku (1956) - Chie Yamada
- Early Spring (1956) - Tamako Tamura
- Yonjū-hassai no teikō (1956) - Satoko, Kotaro's wife
- Nagareru (1956) - Someka
- Onna no ashi ato (1956)
- The Crowded Streetcar (1957) - Otome, the mother
- Tokyo Twilight (1957) - Shigeko Takeuchi
- Kanashimi wa onna dakeni (1958) - Chiyoko
- Hana no bojō (1958) - Rie Ikegami
- Iwashigumo (1958) - Mother
- Nemuri Kyōshirō burai hikae: Maken jigoku (1958) - Sonoe
- Good Morning (1959) - Kikue Haraguchi
- Bibō ni tsumi ari (1959) - Fusa Yoshino
- Anyakōro (1959) - Osai
- Kashimanada no onna (1959)
- The Three Treasures (1959) - Narrator
- Floating Weeds (1959) - Oyoshi
- Tenpō rokkasen - Jigoku no hanamichi (1960) - Okuma
- Musume tsuma haha (1960) - Kayo Tani
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960) - Kayo Tani
- Ashi ni sawatta onna (1960) - Pickpocket Haruko
- Furyu fukagawata (1960)
- Banana (1960)
- Kutsukake Tokijirō (1961) - Oroku
- The End of Summer (1961) - Katou Shige
- Buddha (1961) - Vaidehi
- Hangyakuji (1961)
- Katei no jijō (1962) - Mrs. Yoshii
- Onna no za (1962) - Aki, Ishikawa-ke no gosai
- Ashita aru kagiri (1962)
- Musume to watashi (1962) - Kiyo Kitagawa
- The Outcast (1962) - School master's wife
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962) - Tomoko
- Kaigun (1963)
- Mother (1963) - Yoshie
- The Scent of Incense (1964) - Taromaru
- Akujo (1964) - Hatsu Mimura
- Kwaidan (1964) - Madame (story 4)
- Samurai Assassin (1965) - Tsuru
- With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) - Otoko's mother
- Red Beard (1965) - Kin, the madam
- Daikon to ninjin (1965)
- Dark the Mountain Snow (1966) - Ine's mother
- Jinchoge (1966) - Aki Ueno, Daphne
- Hanaoka Seishū no tsuma (1967) - Narrator
- Hitorikko (1969)
- Kaseki no mori (1973)
- Akumyo: shima arashi (1974) - Ito
- Kaseki (1974) - Mother-in-law
- Bokuto kidan (1992) - Kafu's mother
- A Last Note (1995) - Yoko Morimoto
Television (selected)
- Sekigahara (1981) - Kita no mandokoro
Awards
- 1951: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress - Repast and Early Summer
- 1954: Mainichi Film Concours Best Supporting Actress - An Inlet of Muddy Water and Tokyo Story
- 1974: Person of Cultural Merit
- 1992: Honorary citizen of Tokyo
- 1995: Mainichi Film Concours Best Actress - A Last Note
- 1996: Kinema Junpo Awards for Best Actress - A Last Note
- 1998: Mainichi Film Concours Special Award
- 1998: Japanese Academy Prize Special Award
Notes
- Although the Japanese Movie Database and Internet Movie Database list Yasujirō Shimazu's Asakusa no hi as Sugimura's film debut, she had previously appeared in a small role in Tanaka's Namiko.[3][4]
References
- Kiuchi, Noboru. "杉村春子 自分で選んだ道ですもの (Haruko Sugimura – This is the path I chose)". Nikkei Style. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J.; Liu, Siyuan; Mee, Erin B. (2014). Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900–2000. London, New York: Bloomsbury. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-4081-7720-4.
- Daniel, Rob (8 April 1997). "Obituary: Haruko Sugimura". The Independent. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- 川本三郎 (Saburo Kawamoto) (1996). 君美わしく―戦後日本映画女優讃 (Your beauty: Post-war Japanese film actresses). Tokyo: 文藝春秋 (Bungeishunjū). p. 147. ISBN 978-4-16-352390-3.
- Kirkup, James (11 October 2017). "Tears and Laughter: Women in Japanese Melodrama". electric-shadows.com. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
External links
- Haruko Sugimura at IMDb
- Haruko Sugimura at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
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