Setsuko Hara
Date of birth: 1920-06-17
Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 原 節子, Masae Aida, ستسوکو هارا
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.
Movie Credits
Hot Wind
1943-10-07
Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture,
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952-05-14
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to
Untitled # 7 : Rare
2021-04-08
Late Spring
1949-09-13
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marr
Late Autumn
1960-11-13
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular
The Idiot
1951-05-23
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a vo
The End of Summer
1961-10-29
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his
Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
1950-01-29
The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where st
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946-10-29
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an
Chûshingura
1962-11-03
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c
White Fish
1953-08-05
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor
The Age of Beginnings
1947-07-15
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo
Musume to watashi
1962-04-01
Repast
1951-11-23
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and
Sound of the Mountain
1954-01-15
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slight
Tokyo Story
1953-11-03
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v
Early Summer
1951-10-03
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
Tokyo Twilight
1957-04-30
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960-05-21
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
1957-12-17
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation
Oban kanketsu hen
1958-07-01
Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bun
Ôban
1957-03-05
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First p
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957-07-19
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part tw
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
1942-12-03
Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.
The Ball at the Anjo House
1947-09-27
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion
Here's to the Young Lady
1949-03-09
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an au
The Blue Mountains: Part I
1949-07-19
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a s
Noriko Setsuko
2023-08-27
The film reconstructs the life of Noriko by selecting scenes from Oz Yasujiro’s films featuring acto
Noriko Setsuko 2
2023-09-15
The Crown of Life
1936-06-04
Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on hones
Until Victory Day
1945-01-25
An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket
The Three Treasures
1959-11-01
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc
Green Earth
1942-04-01
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation wi
The Daughter of the Samurai
1937-02-04
Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Ger
Settlement of Love
1956-03-28
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four
Currents of Youth
1942-02-14
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for t
Alps Story: The Wild
1950-09-09
1950 Japanese film
Sudden Rain
1956-01-14
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
1943-05-01
Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the
Priest of Darkness
1936-04-30
A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of event
Temptation
1948-04-01
A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his
Holiday in Tokyo
1958-04-15
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s
Kōfuku no genkai
1948-11-01
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along
The Blue Mountains: Part II
1949-07-26
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
The Snake Princess
1940-04-03
When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950-10-14
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
1955-06-07
A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and sh
Woman Unveiled
1958-01-15
Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
1943-04-15
Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a militar
Three Women of the North
1945-08-05
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Thr
Life of a Country Doctor
1960-08-14
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and nov
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1948-09-18
Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of
The Giant
1938-02-02
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Mi
The Cruel Sea
1944-05-25
It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-base
Tokyo Sweetheart
1952-07-15
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are
Wedding Day
1940-03-20
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accep
Machi
1939-08-20
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1940-01-18
Part one of two.
Winter Inn
1938-10-05
A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his
Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
1940-01-18
Part two of two.
Throwing the Soul Away
1935-09-26
The film centres around junior high school students. They are members of the school's baseball team.
Shanghai Landing Party
1939-05-19
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an und
Toyuki
1940-02-07
Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country
Women in Prison
1956-09-11
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is
The Opium War
1943-01-14
The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in
The Wayside Pebble
1960-12-31
In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic succe
Three-Fingered Detective
1947-12-09
Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony.
Mother's Melody
1937-03-03
Story of Leadership
1941-10-04
In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is cur
Pastoral Symphony
1938-06-11
A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in lov
The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
1937-10-21
A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountai
The Wind Blows Twice
1952-02-14
Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a
Sky of Hope
1942-01-14
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited marr
Beautiful Departure
1939-02-21
A rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only the
Women in Tokyo
1939-10-31
This is the story of a woman who enters the world of sales. She works at a company in Ginza as a typ
A Female Doctor's Examination Room
1950-04-19
A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more sur
Love and Fascination
1961-02-14
1961 Japanese movie
A Sister's Promise
1940-10-30
A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a docto
Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
1956-04-25
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend