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) Occupation Actress Years active 1927–1996
Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子 ,Sugimura Haruko ; January 6, 1909 – April 4, 1997) was a Japanesestage and filmactress , best known for her appearances in the films ofYasujirō Ozu andMikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.
Sugimura was born inNishi-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 ageisha .)[ 3] Her adoptive parents took her to performances of both classical Japanese stage arts likekabuki andbunraku , and western ballet and opera. They also encouraged her to enroll at the Tokyo Ongaku Gakko (nowTokyo University of the Arts ), where she failed the exams.[ 4] She then joined the Tsukiji Shōgekijō (Tsukiji Little Theatre),Tokyo , in 1927, and later theBungakuza theatre company, which she remained affiliated with from 1937 until her retirement in 1996.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
She gave her film debut in 1932 inEizo Tanaka 'sNamiko (1932).[ a] Between 1937 and the end of thewar , she acted in about 20 films, including works by directorsYasujirō Shimazu andShirō Toyoda .[ 9] Notable post-war film appearances were inKeisuke Kinoshita 'sMorning for the Osone Family (1946) and in Ozu'sLate Spring (1949).[ 4] Her most important film roles included that of Shige, the elderly couple's hairdresser daughter in Ozu'sTokyo Story (1953),[ 4] [ 10] Naruse'sLate Chrysanthemums (1954),[ 10] andTadashi Imai 'sAn Inlet of Muddy Water (1953).[ 11] For her film performances, she received theBlue Ribbon Award , theKinema Junpo Award and theMainichi Film Award .
On stage, she was successful as Blanche Dubois inA Streetcar Named Desire (the first person to perform the role onstage in Japan[ 12] ), as Gertrude inHamlet and as Asako Kageyama inYukio Mishima 'sRokumeikan .[ 4] Her most popular and often repeated stage role was Kei Nunobiki inKaoru Morimoto 'sA Woman's Life ,[ 7] for which she received numerous awards, including theJapan Art Academy Prize and theAsahi Prize .[ 13] In 1992, she was awarded the honorary citizenship of the city of Tokyo.[ 5] In 1995, she refused theOrder of Cultural Merit award.[ 4] The same year saw the release of her last film,Kaneto Shindō 'sA Last Note .[ 9]
Namiko (1932)Asakusa no hi (1937)Uguisu (1938)Wedding Day (1940)Okumura Ioko (1940)Spring on Leper's Island (1940) – Yokogawa's wifeŌhinata-mura (1940)Waga ai no ki (1941)Shirasagi (1941)Jirō monogatari (1941)Nankai no hanataba (1942) – Nobuko HottaHaha no chizu (1942) – Isano KishiGekiryu (1944)Army (1944) – SetsuKanjōkai no bara (1945)Umi no yobu koe (1945)Ōsone-ke no ashita (1946) – Fusako ŌsoneUrashima Tarō no kōei (1946)No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) – Madame Noge, Ryukichi's motherYottsu no koi no monogatari (1947) – Yukiko's mother (episode 1)Joen (1947)Haru no mezame (1947)Sanbon yubi no otoko (1947) – ItokoYuwaku (1948) – TokieTe o tsunagu kora (1948)Idainaru X (1948) – TakaToki no teizo: zengohen (1948)Kurogumo kaido (1948)Koku'un kaido (1948)Beni imada kiezu (1949)Yotsuya kaidan (1949) – OmakiShinshaku Yotsuya kaidan: kōhen (1949) – OmakiLate Spring (1949) – Masa TaguchiOnna no shiki (1950)Until We Meet Again (1950) – Ono SugaListen to the Voices of the Sea (1950) – Kohagi NakamuraEriko to tomoni Part I + II (1951) – Harue MatsumuraJiyū gakkō (1951)Early Summer (1951) – Tami YabeFireworks Over the Sea (1951) – Kono KujiraiRepast (1951) – Matsu Murata, Michiyo's motherInochi uruwashi (1951) – Mine ImuraSeishun kaigi (1952) – TamiyoGenroku suikoden (1952) – OnuiKaze futatabi (1952)Kin no tamago: Golden girl (1952) – Tsuruko FujimuraWakai hito (1952)Senba zuru (1953) – Chikako KurimotoMontenrupa: Bokyo no uta (1953)Kimi ni sasageshi inochi nariseba (1953)Tokyo Story (1953) – Shige KanekoLife of a Woman (1953) – Tamae, Shintaro's motherAn Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) – O-Hatsu (story 3)Geisha Konatsu (1954) – Raku KamiokaLate Chrysanthemums (1954) – KinShunkin monogatari (1954) – OeiKunsho (1954)Meiji ichidai onna (1955) – OhideKeisatsu Nikki (1955) – Moyo Sugita, a go-betweenPrincess Yang Kwei-Fei (1955) – Princess Yen-chunGeisha Konatsu: Hitori neru yo no Konatsu (1955) – Raku KamiokaShe Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) – Masao's motherAogashima no kodomotachi – Onna kyōshi no kiroku (1956) – Chie YamadaEarly Spring (1956) – Tamako TamuraYonjū-hassai no teikō (1956) – Satoko, Kotaro's wifeNagareru (1956) – SomekaOnna no ashi ato (1956)The Crowded Streetcar (1957) – Otome, the motherTokyo Twilight (1957) – Shigeko TakeuchiKanashimi wa onna dakeni (1958) – ChiyokoHana no bojō (1958) – Rie IkegamiSummer Clouds (1958) – ToyoNemuri Kyōshirō burai hikae: Maken jigoku (1958) – SonoeGood Morning (1959) – Kikue HaraguchiBibō ni tsumi ari (1959) – Fusa YoshinoAnyakōro (1959) – OsaiKashimanada no onna (1959)The Three Treasures (1959) – NarratorFloating Weeds (1959) – OyoshiTenpō rokkasen – Jigoku no hanamichi (1960) – OkumaMusume tsuma haha (1960) – Kayo TaniDaughters, Wives and a Mother (1960) – Kayo TaniAshi ni sawatta onna (1960) – Pickpocket HarukoFuryu fukagawata (1960)Banana (1960)Kutsukake Tokijirō (1961) – OrokuThe End of Summer (1961) – Katou ShigeBuddha (1961) – VaidehiHangyakuji (1961)Katei no jijō (1962) – Mrs. YoshiiOnna no za (1962) – Aki, Ishikawa-ke no gosaiAshita aru kagiri (1962)Musume to watashi (1962) – Kiyo KitagawaThe Outcast (1962) – School master's wifeAn Autumn Afternoon (1962) – TomokoKaigun (1963)Mother (1963) – YoshieThe Scent of Incense (1964) – TaromaruAkujo (1964) – Hatsu MimuraKwaidan (1964) – Madame (story 4)Samurai Assassin (1965) – TsuruWith Beauty and Sorrow (1965) – Otoko's motherRed Beard (1965) – Kin, the madamDaikon to ninjin (1965)Dark the Mountain Snow (1966) – Ine's motherJinchoge (1966) – Aki Ueno, DaphneHanaoka Seishū no tsuma (1967) – NarratorHitorikko (1969)Kaseki no mori (1973)Akumyo: shima arashi (1974) – ItoKaseki (1974) – Mother-in-lawBokuto kidan (1992) – Kafu's motherA Last Note (1995) – Yoko Morimoto Television (selected)[ edit ] Sekigahara (1981) - Kita no mandokoro^ Although the Japanese Movie Database and Internet Movie Database listYasujirō Shimazu 'sAsakusa no hi as Sugimura's film debut, she had previously appeared in a small role in Tanaka'sNamiko .[ 4] [ 8] ^ "杉村春子 (Haruko Sugimura)" .Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved12 July 2021 .^ "広島ゆかりの人物情報" (in Japanese). Hiroshima City Library. Archived fromthe original on 12 February 2017. Retrieved16 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 . Retrieved16 March 2021 . ^a b c d e f g Daniel, Rob (8 April 1997)."Obituary: Haruko Sugimura" .The Independent .Archived from the original on 2022-05-09. Retrieved1 January 2021 . ^a b "杉村 春子 [1906-1997] (Haruko Sugimura [1906-1997])" .Bungakuza (in Japanese). Retrieved12 July 2021 .^ Kiuchi, Noboru (9 June 2013)."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. Retrieved1 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). Retrieved12 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. Retrieved1 January 2021 . ^ Sakai, Takashi (2023)."Shimpa, Onnagata, and Kata: Haruko Sugimura's Gender Performance in the Japanese Premiere ofA Streetcar Named Desire " .Tennessee Williams Annual Review .Historic New Orleans Collection :63– 78.doi :10.2307/48780077 .JSTOR 48780077 . RetrievedJuly 2, 2024 . ^ "朝日賞 (The Asahi Prize)" .The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved12 July 2021 .
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