Setsuko Hara
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Setsuko Hara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (50)
Noriko Setsuko 2
as Noriko Setsuko
2023
Noriko Setsuko
as Noriko Setsuko
2023
Untitled # 7 : Rare
2021
Chûshingura
as Riku Oishi
1962
Musume to watashi
1962
The End of Summer
as Akiko
1961
Love and Fascination
1961
The Wayside Pebble
as Oren Aikawa
1960
Late Autumn
as Akiko Miwa
1960
Life of a Country Doctor
1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Sanae Soga
1960
The Three Treasures
as Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess
1959
Oban kanketsu hen
as Kanako Arishima
1958
Holiday in Tokyo
1958
Woman Unveiled
1958
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as Kanako Arishima
1957
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as Kanako Arishima
1957
Tokyo Twilight
as Takako Numata
1957
Ôban
as Kanako Mori
1957
Women in Prison
as Prison Officer
1956
Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
as Designer Matsukawa
1956
Settlement of Love
as Katsuko
1956
Sudden Rain
as Fumiko Namiki
1956
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
as Mom
1955
Sound of the Mountain
as Ogata Kikuko
1954
Tokyo Story
as Noriko Hirayama
1953
White Fish
as Sachiko
1953
Tokyo Sweetheart
as Yuki
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
The Wind Blows Twice
as Kanae Hisamatsu
1952
Repast
as Michiyo Okamoto
1951
Early Summer
as Noriko Mamiya
1951
The Idiot
as Taeko Nasu
1951
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
as Teruko
1950
Alps Story: The Wild
1950
A Female Doctor's Examination Room
as Fumiko Tajima
1950
Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
1950
Late Spring
as Noriko Somiya
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part II
as Yukiko Shimazaki
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part I
as Yukiko Shimazaki
1949
Here's to the Young Lady
as Yasuko Ikeda
1949
Kōfuku no genkai
1948
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
as Kuriko Sato
1948
Temptation
as Takako
1948
Three-Fingered Detective
1947
The Ball at the Anjo House
as Atsuko Anjo
1947
The Age of Beginnings
as Miyako Tomoda
1947
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Yukie Yagihara
1946
Three Women of the North
1945
Until Victory Day
1945