Setsuko Hara
Acting
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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.
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Filmography of
Setsuko Hara
Noriko Setsuko
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Noriko Setsuko
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Riku Oishi
... 1962
... 1962
Akiko
... 1961
... 1961
Oren Aikawa
... 1960
Akiko Miwa
... 1960
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Sanae Soga
... 1960
Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess
... 1959
Kanako Arishima
... 1958
... 1958
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Kanako Arishima
... 1957
Kanako Arishima
... 1957
Takako Numata
... 1957
Kanako Mori
... 1957
Prison Officer
... 1956
Katsuko
... 1956
Fumiko Namiki
... 1956
... 1955
Ogata Kikuko
... 1954
Noriko Hirayama
... 1953
Sachiko
... 1953
Yuki
... 1952
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Kanae Hisamatsu
... 1952
Michiyo Okamoto
... 1951
Noriko Mamiya
... 1951
Taeko Nasu
... 1951
Teruko
... 1950
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Fumiko Tajima
... 1950
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Noriko Somiya
... 1949
Yukiko Shimazaki
... 1949
Yukiko Shimazaki
... 1949
Yasuko Ikeda
... 1949
... 1948
Kuriko Sato
... 1948
Takako
... 1948
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Atsuko Anjo
... 1947
Miyako Tomoda
... 1947
Yukie Yagihara
... 1946
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Kumiko Takagi
... 1943
Yoshiko
... 1943
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Makiko Yuijima
... 1942
Chizuko
... 1942
Kuniko
... 1941
Sachiko
... 1940
Koto Hime
... 1940
Yoshiko
... 1940
Showa Kinema Actress
... 1940
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君塚節子
... 1939
Sonomi Kihara
... 1939
Mingzhu - Chinese girl
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Keiko
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Misuko Yamato
... 1937
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Onami
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Student
... 1935