Setsuko Hara
Known For
Acting
Born
1920-06-17 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Died
2015-09-05
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Setsuko Hara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Tokyo Story
as Noriko Hirayama
Late Spring
as Noriko Somiya
Early Summer
as Noriko Mamiya
Late Autumn
as Akiko Miwa
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Yukie Yagihara
The Three Treasures
as Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess
Chûshingura
as Riku Oishi
The End of Summer
as Akiko
Shanghai Landing Party
as Mingzhu - Chinese girl
Sound of the Mountain
as Ogata Kikuko
The Blue Mountains: Part I
as Yukiko Shimazaki
The Idiot
as Taeko Nasu
Tokyo Twilight
as Takako Numata
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Sanae Soga
Holiday in Tokyo
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Repast
as Michiyo Okamoto
Tokyo Sweetheart
as Yuki
Sudden Rain
as Fumiko Namiki
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
as Kikuko