Setsuko Hara
Birthday: 1920-06-17 | Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, JapanFrom 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Setsuko Hara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Noriko Setsuko
as Noriko Setsuko
as Self (archive footage)
as Noriko Hirayama
as Noriko Mamiya
as Noriko Somiya
as Akiko
as Akiko Miwa
as Oren Aikawa
as Sanae Soga
as Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess
as Takako Numata
as Fumiko Namiki
as Katsuko
as Prison Officer
as Ogata Kikuko
as Sachiko
as Kanae Hisamatsu
as Yuki
as Michiyo Okamoto
as Taeko Nasu
as Fumiko Tajima
