Setsuko Hara
Biography
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Setsuko Hara (June 17, 1920 – September 5, 2015) was a Japanese actress who appeared in six of Yasujirō Ozu's films, most notably as Noriko in the "Noriko Trilogy": Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1951), and Tokyo Story (1953). Her other films for Ozu were Tokyo Twilight (1957), Late Autumn (1960), and finally The End of Summer in 1961.
She was born Masae Aida in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture. She came to prominence as an actress at an early age, in the 1937 German-Japanese co-production Die Tochter des Samurai (Daughter of the Samurai), known in Japan as Atarashiki Tsuchi (The New Earth), directed by Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami.
She also starred in films by Akira Kurosawa, Mikio Naruse, and other prominent directors.
She was called "the Eternal Virgin" in Japan and is a symbol of the golden era of Japanese cinema of the 1950s. She suddenly quit acting in 1963 (the same year as Ozu's death), and led a secluded life in Kamakura, refusing all interviews and photographs. Her last major role was Riku, wife of Ōishi Yoshio, in the 1962 film Chushingura. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of the 2001 movie Millennium Actress.
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Acting (73 movies)
Hot Wind
1943
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Untitled # 7 : Rare
2021
Late Spring
1949
Late Autumn
1960
The Idiot
1951
The End of Summer
1961
Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
1950
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
Chûshingura
1962
White Fish
1953
The Age of Beginnings
1947
Musume to watashi
1962
Repast
1951
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Tokyo Story
1953
Early Summer
1951
Tokyo Twilight
1957
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
1957
Oban kanketsu hen
1958
Ôban
1957
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
1942
The Ball at the Anjo House
1947
Here's to the Young Lady
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part I
1949
The Crown of Life
1936
The Three Treasures
1959
Green Earth
1942
The Daughter of the Samurai
1937
Settlement of Love
1956
Currents of Youth
1942
Alps Story: The Wild
1950
Sudden Rain
1956
Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
1943
Priest of Darkness
1936
Temptation
1948
Holiday in Tokyo
1958
Kōfuku no genkai
1948
The Blue Mountains: Part II
1949
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
1955
Woman Unveiled
1958
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
1943
Three Women of the North
1945
Life of a Country Doctor
1960
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1948
The Giant
1938
The Cruel Sea
1944
Tokyo Sweetheart
1952
Wedding Day
1940
Machi
1939
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1940
Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
1940
Throwing the Soul Away
1935
Shanghai Landing Party
1939
Toyuki
1940
Women in Prison
1956
The Wayside Pebble
1960
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
Mother's Melody
1937
Story of Leadership
1941
Pastoral Symphony
1938
The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
1937
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
Sky of Hope
1942
Beautiful Departure
1939
Women in Tokyo
1939
A Female Doctor's Examination Room
1950
Love and Fascination
1961
A Sister's Promise
1940
Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
1956
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