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Setsuko Hara
🎂 Jun 17, 1920 — 🕯️ Sep 5, 2015 (95 years)
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Setsuko Hara, born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, is an actor and producer. Made their debut in 1935 with Throwing the Soul Away. Best known for Tokyo Story, playing Noriko Hirayama. Also starred in Late Spring and Early Summer. Their filmography spans 80 movies over 91 years, across genres including drama, comedy, romance.
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Tokyo Story
1953
Late Spring
1949
The Idiot
1951
Chûshingura
1962
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
Tokyo Twilight
1957
Late Autumn
1960
Early Summer
1951
The Three Treasures
1959
The End of Summer
1961
Repast
1951
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Sudden Rain
1956
Tokyo Sweetheart
1952
The Ball at the Anjo House
1947
The Blue Mountains: Part I
1949
Priest of Darkness
1936
The Daughter of the Samurai
1937
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
1943
Here's to the Young Lady
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part II
1949
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Setsuko Hara
1920-06-17 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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.Setsuko Hara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.