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Japanese actress (1909–1997)
Haruko Sugimura
Haruko Sugimura in May 1953
Born (1909-01-06 ) January 6, 1909Died April 4, 1997(1997-04-04) (aged 88) Nationality Japanese Occupation Actress Years active 1927–1996
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.
Biography
Sugimura was born in
Nishi-ku ,
Hiroshima .
[2] After the death of her parents, she was adopted at an early age by affluent lumber dealers, only learning much later that they were not her biological parents.
[3]
[4] (Sugimura reputedly claimed that she was the illegitimate child of a
geisha .)
[3] Her adoptive parents took her to performances of both classical Japanese stage arts like
kabuki and
bunraku , and western ballet and opera. They also encouraged her to enroll at the Tokyo Ongaku Gakko (now
Tokyo University of the Arts ), where she failed the exams.
[4] She then joined the Tsukiji Shōgekijō (Tsukiji Little Theatre),
Tokyo , in 1927, and later the
Bungakuza theatre company, which she remained affiliated with from 1937 until her retirement in 1996.
[5]
[6]
[7]
She gave her film debut in 1932 in
Eizo Tanaka 's Namiko (1932).
[a] Between 1937 and the end of the
war , she acted in about 20 films, including works by directors
Yasujirō Shimazu and
Shirō Toyoda .
[9] Notable post-war film appearances were in
Keisuke Kinoshita 's Morning for the Osone Family (1946) and in Ozu's
Late Spring (1949).
[4] Her most important film roles included that of Shige, the elderly couple's hairdresser daughter in Ozu's
Tokyo Story (1953),
[4]
[10] Naruse's
Late Chrysanthemums (1954),
[10] and
Tadashi Imai 's
An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953).
[11] 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 .
[4] Her most popular and often repeated stage role was Kei Nunobiki in
Kaoru Morimoto 's
A Woman's Life ,
[7] for which she received numerous awards, including the
Japan Art Academy Prize and the
Asahi Prize .
[12] In 1992, she was awarded the honorary citizenship of the city of Tokyo.
[5] In 1995, she refused the
Order of Culture award.
[4] The same year saw the release of her last film,
Kaneto Shindō 's
A Last Note .
[9]
Filmography
Film
Namiko (1932)
Asakusa no hi (1937)
Uguisu (1938)
Wedding Day (1940)
Okumura Ioko (1940)
Spring on Leper's Island (1940) – Yokogawa's wife
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
Summer Clouds (1958) – Toyo
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 (selected)
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 .
[4]
[8]
References
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"杉村春子 (Haruko Sugimura)" . Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 July 2021 .
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"広島ゆかりの人物情報" (in Japanese). Hiroshima City Library. Archived from
the original on 12 February 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2021 .
^
a
b Fukuda, Kazuya (10 June 2012).
"迫真の演技で観客を緊迫へと引きずりこむ---「狂った」女優 女優の近代Vol.7" . 現代ビジネスプレミアム (in Japanese).
Kodansha . Retrieved 16 March 2021 .
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b
c
d
e
f
g Daniel, Rob (8 April 1997).
"Obituary: Haruko Sugimura" .
The Independent .
Archived from the original on 2022-05-09. Retrieved 1 January 2021 .
^
a
b
"杉村 春子 [1906-1997] (Haruko Sugimura [1906-1997])" . Bungakuza (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 July 2021 .
^ 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)" (in Japanese). Nikkei Style. Retrieved 1 January 2021 .
^
a
b 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 .
^ 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 .
^
a
b
"杉村春子 (Haruko Sugimura)" .
Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 July 2021 .
^
a
b Russell, Catherine (2008). The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity . Durham and London: Duke University Press. p. 270.
ISBN
978-0-8223-4290-8 .
^ Kirkup, James (11 October 2017).
"Tears and Laughter: Women in Japanese Melodrama" . electric-shadows.com. Retrieved 1 January 2021 .
^
"朝日賞 (The Asahi Prize)" .
The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 July 2021 .
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