Setsuko Hara
Acting • Born 1920-06-17 – Died 2015-09-05
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.
Filmography
80 credits
Hot Wind
Movie • 1943
Kumiko Takagi
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Movie • 1952
Untitled # 7 : Rare
Movie • 2021
Late Spring
Movie • 1949
Noriko Somiya
Late Autumn
Movie • 1960
Akiko Miwa
The Idiot
Movie • 1951
Taeko Nasu
The End of Summer
Movie • 1961
Akiko
Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
Movie • 1950
No Regrets for Our Youth
Movie • 1946
Yukie Yagihara
Chûshingura
Movie • 1962
Riku Oishi
White Fish
Movie • 1953
Sachiko
The Age of Beginnings
Movie • 1947
Miyako Tomoda
Musume to watashi
Movie • 1962
Repast
Movie • 1951
Michiyo Okamoto
Sound of the Mountain
Movie • 1954
Ogata Kikuko
Tokyo Story
Movie • 1953
Noriko Hirayama
Early Summer
Movie • 1951
Noriko Mamiya
Tokyo Twilight
Movie • 1957
Takako Numata
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Movie • 1960
Sanae Soga
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Movie • 1957
Kanako Arishima
Oban kanketsu hen
Movie • 1958
Kanako Arishima
Ôban
Movie • 1957
Kanako Mori
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Movie • 1957
Kanako Arishima
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
Movie • 1942
Kikuko
Here's to the Young Lady
Movie • 1949
Yasuko Ikeda
The Ball at the Anjo House
Movie • 1947
Atsuko Anjo
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Movie • 1949
Yukiko Shimazaki
Noriko Setsuko
Movie • 2023
Noriko Setsuko
Noriko Setsuko 2
Movie • 2023
Noriko Setsuko
The Crown of Life
Movie • 1936
Until Victory Day
Movie • 1945
The Three Treasures
Movie • 1959
Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess
Green Earth
Movie • 1942
The Daughter of the Samurai
Movie • 1937
Misuko Yamato
Settlement of Love
Movie • 1956
Katsuko
Currents of Youth
Movie • 1942
Makiko Yuijima
Alps Story: The Wild
Movie • 1950
Sudden Rain
Movie • 1956
Fumiko Namiki
Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
Movie • 1943
Priest of Darkness
Movie • 1936
Onami
Temptation
Movie • 1948
Takako
Holiday in Tokyo
Movie • 1958
Kōfuku no genkai
Movie • 1948
The Blue Mountains: Part II
Movie • 1949
Yukiko Shimazaki
The Snake Princess
Movie • 1940
Koto Hime
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Movie • 1950
Teruko
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
Movie • 1955
Mom
Woman Unveiled
Movie • 1958
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
Movie • 1943
Yoshiko
Three Women of the North
Movie • 1945
Life of a Country Doctor
Movie • 1960
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Movie • 1948
Kuriko Sato
The Giant
Movie • 1938
The Cruel Sea
Movie • 1944
Tokyo Sweetheart
Movie • 1952
Yuki
Wedding Day
Movie • 1940
Yoshiko
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Movie • 1940
Machi
Movie • 1939
Sonomi Kihara
Winter Inn
Movie • 1938
Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
Movie • 1940
Throwing the Soul Away
Movie • 1935
Student
Shanghai Landing Party
Movie • 1939
Mingzhu - Chinese girl
Toyuki
Movie • 1940
Showa Kinema Actress
Women in Prison
Movie • 1956
Prison Officer
The Opium War
Movie • 1943
The Wayside Pebble
Movie • 1960
Oren Aikawa
Three-Fingered Detective
Movie • 1947
Mother's Melody
Movie • 1937
Keiko
Story of Leadership
Movie • 1941
Kuniko
Pastoral Symphony
Movie • 1938
The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
Movie • 1937
The Wind Blows Twice
Movie • 1952
Kanae Hisamatsu
Sky of Hope
Movie • 1942
Chizuko
Beautiful Departure
Movie • 1939
Women in Tokyo
Movie • 1939
君塚節子
A Female Doctor's Examination Room
Movie • 1950
Fumiko Tajima
Love and Fascination
Movie • 1961
A Sister's Promise
Movie • 1940
Sachiko
Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
Movie • 1956
Designer Matsukawa
Fujisancho
Movie • 1948