Name
Setsuko Hara
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1920-06-17
Deathday
2015-09-05 (95 years old)
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
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Known For
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- 1943 Searing Wind as Kumiko Takagi
- 1952 Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- 2021 Untitled # 7 : Rare
- 1949 Late Spring as Noriko Somiya
- 1960 Late Autumn as Akiko Miwa
- 1951 The Idiot as Taeko Nasu
- 1961 The End of Summer as Akiko
- 1950 Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
- 1946 No Regrets for Our Youth as Yukie Yagihara
- 1962 Chûshingura as Riku Oishi
- 1953 White Fish as Sachiko
- 1947 The Age of Beginnings as Miyako Tomoda
- 1962 Musume to watashi
- 1951 Repast as Michiyo Okamoto
- 1954 Sound of the Mountain as Ogata Kikuko
- 1953 Tokyo Story as Noriko Hirayama
- 1951 Early Summer as Noriko Mamiya
- 1957 Tokyo Twilight as Takako Numata
- 1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Sanae Soga
- 1957 Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen as Kanako Arishima
- 1958 Oban kanketsu hen as Kanako Arishima
- 1957 Ôban as Kanako Mori
- 1957 Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Kanako Arishima
- 1942 The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya as Kikuko
- 1949 Here's to the Young Lady as Yasuko Ikeda
- 1947 The Ball at the Anjo House as Atsuko Anjo
- 1949 The Blue Mountains: Part I as Yukiko Shimazaki
- 2023 Noriko Setsuko as Noriko Setsuko
- 2023 Noriko Setsuko 2 as Noriko Setsuko
- 1936 The Crown of Life
- 1945 Until Victory Day
- 1959 The Three Treasures as Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess
- 1942 Green Earth
- 1937 The Daughter of the Samurai as Misuko Yamato
- 1956 Settlement of Love as Katsuko
- 1942 Currents of Youth as Makiko Yuijima
- 1950 Alps Story: The Wild
- 1956 Sudden Rain as Fumiko Namiki
- 1943 Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
- 1936 Priest of Darkness as Onami
- 1948 Temptation as Takako
- 1958 Holiday in Tokyo
- 1948 Kōfuku no genkai
- 1949 The Blue Mountains: Part II as Yukiko Shimazaki
- 1940 The Snake Princess as Koto Hime
- 1950 The Rainbow-Colored Flower as Teruko
- 1955 Nobuko Rides on a Cloud as Mom
- 1958 Woman Unveiled
- 1943 Suicide Troops of the Watchtower as Yoshiko
- 1945 Three Women of the North
- 1960 Life of a Country Doctor
- 1948 A Woman in the Typhoon Area as Kuriko Sato
- 1938 The Giant
- 1944 The Cruel Sea
- 1952 Tokyo Sweetheart as Yuki
- 1940 Wedding Day as Yoshiko
- 1940 Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
- 1939 The Town as Sonomi Kihara
- 1938 Winter Inn
- 1940 Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
- 1935 Throwing the Soul Away as Student
- 1939 Shanghai Landing Party as Mingzhu - Chinese girl
- 1940 Travels to the East as Showa Kinema Actress
- 1956 Women in Prison as Prison Officer
- 1943 The Opium War
- 1960 The Wayside Pebble as Oren Aikawa
- 1947 Three-Fingered Detective
- 1937 Mother's Melody as Keiko
- 1941 Story of Leadership as Kuniko
- 1938 Pastoral Symphony
- 1937 The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
- 1952 The Wind Blows Twice as Kanae Hisamatsu
- 1942 Sky of Hope as Chizuko
- 1939 Beautiful Departure
- 1939 Women in Tokyo as 君塚節子
- 1950 A Female Doctor's Examination Room as Fumiko Tajima
- 1961 Love and Fascination
- 1940 The Sisters' Agreement as Sachiko
- 1956 Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl as Designer Matsukawa
- 1948 Fujisancho
- 1946 Beauty as Keiko
- 1940 A World of Two
- 1956 A Brother and His Sister as Akiko Mamiya
- 1957 The Last Escape as Tomiko
- 1957 The Chieko Story as Chieko Takamura
- 1942 Young Teacher as Tomiko Hirayama
- 1952 Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
- 1947 Onna dake no yoru
