Setsuko Hara

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, although she is mostly unknown in the US. She suddenly quit acting in 1963 (the same year as Ozu's death), and had since 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 1920-06-17

Died: 2015-09-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1935	Throwing the Soul Away	Student	0
2	1936	Priest of Darkness	Onami	70
3	1936	The Crown of Life		0
4	1937	The Daughter of the Samurai	Misuko Yamato	53
5	1937	Mother's Melody	Keiko	0
6	1937	The Woman Aiming for the Shogun		0
7	1938	The Giant		60
8	1938	Pastoral Symphony		0
9	1938	Winter Inn		0
10	1939	Beautiful Departure		0
11	1939	Shanghai Landing Party	Mingzhu - Chinese girl	50
12	1939	Machi	Sonomi Kihara	0
13	1939	Women in Tokyo	君塚節子	0
14	1940	Hikari to kage (Zenpen)		0
15	1940	Hikari to kage (Kōhen)		0
16	1940	Toyuki	Showa Kinema Actress	0
17	1940	Wedding Day	Yoshiko	0
18	1940	The Snake Princess	Koto Hime	0
19	1941	Story of Leadership	Kuniko	0
20	1942	Sky of Hope	Chizuko	0
21	1942	Currents of Youth	Makiko Yuijima	0
22	1942	Green Earth		0
23	1942	The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya	Kikuko	60
24	1943	The Opium War		0
25	1943	Suicide Troops of the Watchtower	Yoshiko	57
26	1943	Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky		50
27	1943	Hot Wind	Kumiko Takagi	0
28	1944	The Cruel Sea		0
29	1945	Until Victory Day		0
30	1945	Three Women of the North		0
31	1946	No Regrets for Our Youth	Yukie Yagihara	69
32	1947	The Age of Beginnings	Miyako Tomoda	0
33	1947	The Ball at the Anjo House	Atsuko Anjo	68
34	1947	Three-Fingered Detective		0
35	1948	Temptation	Takako	60
36	1948	A Woman in the Typhoon Area	Kuriko Sato	50
37	1948	Kōfuku no genkai		0
38	1949	Here's to the Young Lady	Yasuko Ikeda	65
39	1949	The Blue Mountains: Part I	Yukiko Shimazaki	63
40	1949	The Blue Mountains: Part II	Yukiko Shimazaki	68
41	1949	Late Spring	Noriko Somiya	80
42	1950	Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi		0
43	1950	A Female Doctor's Examination Room	Fumiko Tajima	0
44	1950	Alps Story: The Wild		0
45	1950	The Rainbow-Colored Flower	Teruko	10
46	1951	The Idiot	Taeko Nasu	70
47	1951	Early Summer	Noriko Mamiya	79
48	1951	Repast	Michiyo Okamoto	76
49	1952	The Wind Blows Twice	Kanae Hisamatsu	0
50	1952	Kin no tamago: Golden Girl		0
51	1952	Tokyo Sweetheart	Yuki	78
52	1953	White Fish	Sachiko	0
53	1953	Tokyo Story	Noriko Hirayama	82
54	1954	Sound of the Mountain	Ogata Kikuko	74
55	1955	Nobuko Rides on a Cloud	Mom	0
56	1956	Sudden Rain	Fumiko Namiki	66
57	1956	Settlement of Love	Katsuko	0
58	1956	Women in Prison	Prison Officer	10
59	1957	Ôban	Kanako Mori	0
60	1957	Tokyo Twilight	Takako Numata	77
61	1957	Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen	Kanako Arishima	0
62	1957	Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen	Kanako Arishima	0
63	1958	Woman Unveiled		60
64	1958	A Holiday in Tokyo		0
65	1958	Oban kanketsu hen	Kanako Arishima	0
66	1959	The Three Treasures	Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess	54
67	1960	Daughters, Wives and a Mother	Sanae Soga	71
68	1960	Life of a Country Doctor		0
69	1960	Late Autumn	Akiko Miwa	78
70	1960	The Wayside Pebble	Oren Aikawa	0
71	1961	Love and Fascination		0
72	1961	The End of Summer	Akiko	75
73	1962	Musume to watashi		0
74	1962	Chûshingura	Riku Oishi	73
75	1993	Talking with Ozu	Self (archive footage)	65
76	2021	Untitled # 7 : Rare		0
77	2023	Noriko Setsuko	Noriko Setsuko	0
78	2023	Noriko Setsuko 2	Noriko Setsuko	0

Setsuko Hara

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