Tokyo Story
1953
star 8.2
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their...
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Acting
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 movies of Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. In the West, her most famous role was that of Shige, the elderly couple's hairdresser daughter in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953).
After the war, she was highly praised by such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Shiro Toyoda, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Tadashi Imai for her natural and realistic acting. In particular, she was a regular in Yasujiro Ozu's films, appearing in nine of his films.
Filmography
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Red Beard
1965
star 8.1
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his fir...
Kwaidan
1965
star 7.7
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A...
Late Spring
1949
star 8.0
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that i...
An Early Autumn
1987
A former couple, separated for over 20 years, were reunited after being told their son had only 3 months to liv...
Good Morning
1959
star 7.7
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relation...
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
star 6.7
In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor w...
The Three Treasures
1959
star 5.5
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his fa...
Tokyo Twilight
1957
star 7.7
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she w...
Early Spring
1956
star 7.5
A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks...
Second generation
1970
The film explores the joys and sorrows of intergenerational life and the love between a mother and daughter at...
Early Summer
1951
star 7.8
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, he...
Samurai Assassin
1965
star 7.4
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of...
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
star 7.9
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that M...
The End of Summer
1961
star 7.5
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health afte...
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992
star 7.8
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who fall...
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
star 7.3
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance pol...
Floating Weeds
1959
star 7.5
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with d...
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
star 6.3
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult...
Flowing
1956
star 7.2
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn'...
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
star 6.9
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime u...
Buddha
1961
star 10.0
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search o...
Repast
1951
star 7.5
In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's yo...
Sunflower Girl
1953
star 10.0
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys...
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
star 7.3
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a we...
The Petrified Forest
1973
star 6.2
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his...
The Scent of Incense
1964
star 7.2
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red...
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
star 9.0
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discove...
Summer Clouds
1958
star 7.6
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview he...
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955
star 7.0
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particula...
The Wiser Age
1962
star 7.3
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
The Crowded Train
1957
star 6.8
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look bu...
The Gambler's Code
1961
star 7.2
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he mu...
Army
1944
star 6.8
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstandi...
A Last Note
1995
star 7.1
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old fri...
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1949
star 6.6
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying up...