Her recent film, Okusama (2022), received the Best Fiction award at the CUNY Asian American Film Festival in 2023, highlighting her talent and storytelling ability.
In addition to Okusama, her short documentary The (New) Normal (2023) has been recognized as a finalist at the CUNY Film Festival 2024 and selected for the International Filmmaker Festival of New York 2024. Haruko's earlier work, Emily (2021), was an official selection at the New York Lift-Off Film Festival in 2022, while her short narrative Kanpai (2019) received an Honorable Mention at the American Filmatics Arts Awards in 2020.