Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

Born: 1909-1-6

Birthplace: Hiroshima City

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Profession: actor

Nationality: Japan

Representative Works: Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Osone’s morning, わが青春に愛なし

Haruko Sugimura (Haruko Sugimura) (January 6, 1909-April 4, 1997), was born on January 6, 1909 in Hiroshima, Japan. He is a Japanese drama actor.

Haruko Sugimura has won the Asahi Culture Award, the Daily Art Award, and the title of Cultural Meritor. He is also very active in the film and television circles. In terms of film, he has performed many times in the films of famous directors Yasujiro Ozu , Wind Man and Mikio Naruse . They are highly praised for their good acting skills, and mainly perform supporting roles.

Performing Experience

In 1928, the Tsukiji Theater was split, and Haruko Sugimura joined the Tsukiji Theater Company. In 1936, the Tsukiji Theater Troupe was disbanded, and in 1937, he participated in the Literary Theater created by Kubota Mantaro , Kishida Kunishi , Iwata Toyuo and others . Become the only actress who was active on the stage of Literary Drama during the war.

In 1945, the playwright Kaoru Morimoto wrote "A Woman's Life" specifically for her. The life of Yin Kei was announced by the host in the play, reflecting the social history of Japan. Her outstanding performance won the Academy Award for the first time after the war.

In 1953, in T. Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire", he portrayed Blanche living in a dream and won praise. In 1955, in Kimitaké Hiraoka's "Luming Hall", he created the image of a free woman, Kageyama Chaoko, and used traditional drama techniques in the performance, achieving new breakthroughs in art.

However, in 1963, Kimitaké Hiraoka ,きしだきょうこ, Noburo Nakamura, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Shigeru Koyama ,かとうはるこ, and more than half of the group members who were dissatisfied with Sugimura’s arrogant attitude in the literary group rioted twice. Hiroshi Akutagawa participated in the Yun Opera Troupe founded by Hengcun Fukuda, and refused to perform on the same stage with Sugimura for life.

The scene left on the screen is the female patient in the depths of Momota in 1940's "Kojima no Spring." After the war, the drama "A Woman's Life" was first performed in 1945, setting a record of more than a thousand performances. The masterpieces of the movie are "Morning at Osone's House" and "わが青春に愛なし". Yasujiro Ozu, who never used a drama actor in a movie in 1949, specially invited her to perform in "Late Spring" as the younger sister of a university professor. Since then, she has performed almost all of Ozu's works.

In nearly 60 years, Haruko Sugimura has created a series of images of women. She and Mizutani Yaeko , Isuzu Yamada was hailed as a Japanese actress, "Ruin." The main roles she has played include: ""Yu Ji" in "Saturday, Sunday, Monday", Rosa in "Saturday, Sunday, Monday", Suwa in "Gorgeous Family", Ichikawa Nine Women in "Women" and so on.

Haruko Sugimura has won the Asahi Culture Award, the Daily Art Award, and the title of Cultural Meritor. She was nominated for the Japanese Cultural Medal in 1995 , but she dismissed the nomination. He used to be the head of Wenxueza Theater Company and the director of the Japanese New Drama Haiyou Association. He is an honorary member of CHINA THEATRE ASSOCIATION . The main works include essay collection "Make-up Clothes", " Autobiography of an Actress " and so on.

Personal Life

Haruko Sugimura, she is a famous actress who has performed "A Woman's Life" and completed a thousand performances. This stage play was performed under the circumstance that the U.S. military has been adopting intensive air strikes against Tokyo. When Sugimura rushed to the theater with crimson eyes that hadn't slept for a few days due to the air raid, he found that the auditorium was already full and crowded, and the spirit was immediately lifted. In the theater, the actors and the audience shared the same idea: "This may be the last scene, and tomorrow may be my turn to die." This is the precious experience that Sugimura gained when he was thirty-six years old. . It is precisely because of this shocking experience that she can go all out with the feeling of "This is the last performance" in every scene in the future, creating the record of the thousandth performance of this play. .

When she was 22 years old, she lived and married with Chang Hirogishi, who was studying in the preparatory class of Keio University School of Medicine. Nagahiro is also from Hiroshima. As both of them are poor students who left home and came to Tokyo, they can only live a life of extreme poverty where "you have to do everything by yourself except shoes." Because of Changguang's health problems, most of their married life spent seeking medical advice and medicine until Changguang's death.

Sugimura's second partner was Kaoru Morimoto, who wrote "a woman's life" for her. He did not become her official husband. Morimoto is three years younger than her. In the drama, he is her teacher, and off the stage, the two are a pair of deep-rooted lovers. But Kaoru Morimoto died young when he was only thirty-five years old. At that time, Sugimura was rehearsing for the stage play, and many people witnessed her painful and pouring tears.

Sugimura's third partner is the younger brother of her first husband. Every year on the anniversary of Changguang’s death, more than a dozen friends gather together. This is why she and the gentle-hearted Shishan Jihiko have a further relationship eight years after Changguang’s death, but this marriage is also fourteen. Years later, it came to an end because of the death of Shishan.

On the day of Shishan's death, Sugimura was holding a performance in Hokkaido. She hesitated between returning home or continuing to perform, but in the end she managed to endure her grief and finished the performance before returning home to meet her husband. At this time, Shan Village was fifty-seven years old, and he really became a lonely person, without any children under his knees. If it were an ordinary woman at the time, her life would probably end here. But Sugimura did not.

On April 4, 1997, died of pancreatic cancer at a hospital in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, at the age of 91.

Extended Reading

Late Spring reviews

Maximo 2022-03-25 09:01:22

Otsu reminds me of Hou Hsiao-hsien

This is before I haven't read the other reviews.
I know very little about them, just emotionally.
The details of life are very important in their films, but in this film, history is less important than life. I won't comment on the war, but that's not a good thing for ordinary people on either side....
Rosendo 2022-03-24 09:03:46

late spring

Is the oriental aesthetics shown in Late Spring constructed by the morbidity of East Asian families? It is true that the East Asian family is a very vague concept, but I think Chinese audiences should not be unfamiliar with part of the way Noriko and her father get along.
I don't think Noriko is...

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Kenton 2022-04-23 07:05:18

[Archive Shochiku Film Festival] So "Autumn Harmony" is a companion piece to this one, and Setsuko Hara's interpretation of her daughter is even better. Li Zhizhong's father is definitely the light of East Asian males. If I have such a father, I can't bear to see him die alone...｜Ps. I laughed so hard when I joked about Cooper
Dave 2022-03-21 09:03:25

Ozu's works have always been elegant and timeless in style, which makes people feel unforgettable after reading them.

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