Haruko Sugimura
Biography
Haruko Sugimura was a renowned Japanese stage and film actress known for her collaborations with masters of Japanese cinema from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Her most notable role came in Tokyo Story (1953), where she played the eldest daughter of an elderly couple's hairdresser. A nine-time collaborator with Yasujiro Ozu, Sugimura was praised for her natural and realistic acting style by directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi.
