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.
Tokyo Story
as Noriko HirayamaThe elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village...
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Early Summer
as Noriko MamiyaA 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
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The Idiot
as Taeko NasuKameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved...
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Late Spring
as Noriko SomiyaNoriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
as Yukie YagiharaOver more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as...
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Tokyo Twilight
as Takako NumataTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the...
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The End of Summer
as AkikoThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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47 Ronin
as Riku OishiAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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Late Autumn
as Akiko MiwaA woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry,...
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Priest of Darkness
as OnamiA boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of...
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The Three Treasures
as Amaterasu, the Sun GoddessThe legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to...
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Sudden Rain
as Fumiko NamikiA husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
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Sound of the Mountain
as Ogata KikukoAn ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely...
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Repast
as Michiyo OkamotoMichiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook...
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The Ball at the Anjo House
as Atsuko AnjoAfter Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their...
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The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
as KikukoJapanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.
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A Holiday in Tokyo
as uncreditedMay Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Sanae SogaSanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million...
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Temptation
as TakakoA young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor...
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Three Women of the North
as uncreditedThe story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town....
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Settlement of Love
as KatsukoLiving in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child....
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as Kanako ArishimaUshinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. ...
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Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
as YoshikoStalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a...
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Currents of Youth
as Makiko YuijimaIt was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working...
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Here's to the Young Lady
as Yasuko IkedaA matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
as uncreditedOnce an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing...
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Woman Unveiled
as uncreditedStory of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a...
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as Kanako ArishimaUshinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film...
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Life of a Country Doctor
as uncreditedA skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
as YukiFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
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The Blue Mountains: Part I
as Yukiko ShimazakiTeacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending...
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Sky of Hope
as ChizukoWhat is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited...
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Shanghai Landing Party
as Mingzhu - Chinese girlThis film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an...
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Ôban
as Kanako MoriA young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader....
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White Fish
as SachikoA family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a...
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A Woman in the Typhoon Area
as Kuriko SatoFour unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the...
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Three-Fingered Detective
as uncreditedBeing acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding...
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Oban kanketsu hen
as Kanako ArishimaUshinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of...
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The Wind Blows Twice
as uncreditedKanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her...
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Beautiful Departure
as uncreditedA rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only...
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The Blue Mountains: Part II
as Yukiko ShimazakiContinuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
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Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
as uncreditedYoung men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into...
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Talking with Ozu
as Self (archive footage)A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers...
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The Crown of Life
as uncreditedTwo brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on...
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The Giant
as uncreditedJapanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from...
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The Wayside Pebble
as Oren AikawaIn Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic...
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
as TerukoEbihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women...
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Women in Prison
as Prison OfficerThe woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There...
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Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
as MomA little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds...
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Women in Tokyo
as 君塚節子This is the story of a woman who enters the world of sales. She works at a company in Ginza as a...
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Kōfuku no genkai
as uncreditedThe eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting...
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Green Earth
as uncreditedSet in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and...
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The Daughter of the Samurai
as Misuko YamatoTeruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from...
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Story of Leadership
as KunikoIn this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is...
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Hot Wind
as Kumiko TakagiSet in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka...
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The Cruel Sea
as uncreditedIt is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The...
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Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
as uncreditedThe film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school...
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The Age of Beginnings
as Miyako TomodaA newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover...
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Pastoral Symphony
as uncreditedA priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in...
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The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
as uncreditedA man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the...
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Toyuki
as Showa Kinema ActressShot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their...
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