Setsuko Hara
Acting
Born 1920-06-17
Died 2015-09-05
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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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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Filmography
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Tokyo Story
Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
Late Spring
Onna dake no yoru
The Chieko Story
Beauty
Searing Wind
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
Women in Prison
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Life of a Country Doctor
The Crown of Life
The End of Summer
Chûshingura
Tokyo Twilight
The Idiot
Untitled # 7 : Rare
Late Autumn
No Regrets for Our Youth
Early Summer
The Three Treasures
The Blue Mountains: Part II
The Daughter of the Samurai
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
Young Teacher
Sound of the Mountain
Sudden Rain
Tokyo Sweetheart
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
Temptation
Repast
A World of Two
Here's to the Young Lady
Priest of Darkness
A Brother and His Sister
The Cruel Sea
Fujisancho
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
The Last Escape
The Ball at the Anjo House
Shanghai Landing Party
Holiday in Tokyo
Sky of Hope
Woman Unveiled
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
White Fish
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Three Women of the North
Settlement of Love
The Giant
Women in Tokyo
Currents of Youth
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
Travels to the East
The Opium War
The Town
The Age of Beginnings
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