Setsuko Hara
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1920-06-17
Day of Death
2015-09-05 (95 years old)
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Setsuko Hara
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, 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.
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Acting
(2023)
Noriko Setsuko
as Noriko Setsuko
(2023)
Noriko Setsuko 2
as Noriko Setsuko
(2021)
(1993)
Talking with Ozu
as Self (archive footage)
(1962)
Chûshingura
as Riku Oishi
(1962)
(1961)
The End of Summer
as Akiko
(1961)
(1960)
Late Autumn
as Akiko Miwa
(1960)
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Sanae Soga
(1960)
The Wayside Pebble
as Oren Aikawa
(1960)
(1959)
The Three Treasures
as Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
Oban kanketsu hen
as Kanako Arishima
(1957)
Tokyo Twilight
as Takako Numata
(1957)
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as Kanako Arishima
(1957)
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as Kanako Arishima
(1957)
Ôban
as Kanako Mori
(1956)
Sudden Rain
as Fumiko Namiki
(1956)
Settlement of Love
as Katsuko
(1956)
Women in Prison
as Prison Officer
(1955)
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
as Mom
(1954)
Sound of the Mountain
as Ogata Kikuko
(1953)
Tokyo Story
as Noriko Hirayama
(1953)
White Fish
as Sachiko
(1952)
Tokyo Sweetheart
as Yuki
(1952)
(1952)
The Wind Blows Twice
as Kanae Hisamatsu
(1951)
The Idiot
as Taeko Nasu
(1951)
Early Summer
as Noriko Mamiya
(1951)
Repast
as Michiyo Okamoto
(1950)
(1950)
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
as Teruko
(1950)
A Female Doctor's Examination Room
as Fumiko Tajima
(1950)
(1949)
Late Spring
as Noriko Somiya
(1949)
Here's to the Young Lady
as Yasuko Ikeda
(1949)
The Blue Mountains: Part I
as Yukiko Shimazaki
(1949)
The Blue Mountains: Part II
as Yukiko Shimazaki
(1948)
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
as Kuriko Sato
(1948)
Temptation
as Takako
(1948)
(1947)
The Ball at the Anjo House
as Atsuko Anjo
(1947)
(1947)
The Age of Beginnings
as Miyako Tomoda
(1946)
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Yukie Yagihara
(1945)
(1945)
(1944)
(1943)
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
as Yoshiko
(1943)
Hot Wind
as Kumiko Takagi
(1943)
(1943)
(1942)
Currents of Youth
as Makiko Yuijima
(1942)
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
as Kikuko
(1942)
Sky of Hope
as Chizuko
(1942)
(1941)
Story of Leadership
as Kuniko
(1940)
The Snake Princess
as Koto Hime
(1940)
Wedding Day
as Yoshiko
(1940)
Toyuki
as Showa Kinema Actress
(1940)
(1940)
(1939)
Shanghai Landing Party
as Mingzhu - Chinese girl
(1939)
Machi
as Sonomi Kihara
(1939)
Women in Tokyo
as 君塚節子
(1939)
(1938)
(1938)
(1938)
(1937)
The Daughter of the Samurai
as Misuko Yamato
(1937)
Mother's Melody
as Keiko
(1937)
(1936)
Priest of Darkness
as Onami
(1936)
(1935)
Throwing the Soul Away
as Student