Setsuko Hara

Known for ActingBorn 1920-06-17Died 2015-09-05Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Musume to watashi

Three Women of the North

A World of Two

Beautiful Departure

Holiday in Tokyo

Ôban

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

Settlement of Love

Nobuko Rides on a Cloud

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Currents of Youth

Story of Leadership

Pastoral Symphony

Tokyo Story

Life of a Country Doctor

Woman Unveiled

Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

A Brother and His Sister

Tokyo Sweetheart

Late Spring

Temptation

Until Victory Day

The Opium War

Sky of Hope

The Snake Princess

Toyuki

Early Summer

Late Autumn

Tokyo Twilight

The End of Summer

Repast

A Woman in the Typhoon Area

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Sound of the Mountain

The Giant

Chûshingura

The Blue Mountains: Part II

White Fish

The Idiot

Priest of Darkness

Three-Fingered Detective

The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya

The Ball at the Anjo House

Winter Inn

No Regrets for Our Youth

Sudden Rain

Here's to the Young Lady

Suicide Troops of the Watchtower