Setsuko Hara
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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, 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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.604 |
| Birthday | 1920-06-17 |
| Place of Birth | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Also Known As | 原 節子, Сэцуко Хара, Masae Aida, |
1943
Hot Wind
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Hot Wind
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
0/0
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
2021
Untitled # 7 : Rare
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1949
Late Spring
7.984/403
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukic...
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Late Spring
1960
Late Autumn
7.8/149
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
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Late Autumn
1951
The Idiot
6.9/109
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The Idiot
1993
Talking with Ozu
6.5/3
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurism...
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Talking with Ozu
1961
The End of Summer
7.5/90
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mis...
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The End of Summer
1950
Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
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The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond on-...
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Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
6.8/72
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No Regrets for Our Youth
1962
47 Ronin
7.3/41
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47 Ronin
1953
White Fish
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White Fish
1947
The Age of Beginnings
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The Age of Beginnings
1962
Musume to watashi
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Musume to watashi
1951
Repast
7.5/39
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Repast
1954
Sound of the Mountain
7.4/58
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Sound of the Mountain
1953
Tokyo Story
8.174/1038
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Tokyo Story
1951
Early Summer
7.831/177
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
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Early Summer
1957
Tokyo Twilight
7.7/127
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
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Tokyo Twilight
1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
7.1/8
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1957
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
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Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer.
Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
1958
Oban kanketsu hen
0/0
Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions.
Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
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Oban kanketsu hen
1957
Ôban
0/0
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku S...
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Ôban
1957
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
0/0
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful.
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1942
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
0/0
Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.
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The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
1947
The Ball at the Anjo House
6.7/17
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the f...
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The Ball at the Anjo House
1949
Here's to the Young Lady
6.3/11
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
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Here's to the Young Lady
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part I
6.3/7
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The Blue Mountains: Part I
2023
Noriko Setsuko
0/0
The film reconstructs the life of Noriko by selecting scenes from Oz Yasujiro’s films featuring actor Hara Setsuko.
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Noriko Setsuko
2023
Noriko Setsuko 2
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Noriko Setsuko 2
1936
The Crown of Life
0/0
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The Crown of Life
1945
Until Victory Day
0/0
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Until Victory Day
1959
The Three Treasures
5.3/10
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe...
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The Three Treasures
1942
Green Earth
0/0
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japa...
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Green Earth
1937
The Daughter of the Samurai
5.3/3
Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there st...
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The Daughter of the Samurai
1956
Settlement of Love
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Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an annive...
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Settlement of Love
1942
Currents of Youth
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It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latt...
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Currents of Youth
1950
Alps Story: The Wild
0/0
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Alps Story: The Wild
1956
Sudden Rain
6.6/13
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
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Sudden Rain
1943
Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
5/3
Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the pre...
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Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
1936
Priest of Darkness
7/14
A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.
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Priest of Darkness
1948
Temptation
6/1
A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.
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Temptation
1958
A Holiday in Tokyo
0/0
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes o...
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A Holiday in Tokyo
1948
Kōfuku no genkai
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1949
The Blue Mountains: Part II
6.8/8
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1940
The Snake Princess
0/0
When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister behind. While running fr...
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The Snake Princess
1950
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1/1
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish t...
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1955
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
0/0
A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was bor...
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Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
1958
Woman Unveiled
6/1
Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.
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Woman Unveiled
1943
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
5.7/3
Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by "bandits."
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Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
1945
Three Women of the North
0/0
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...
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Three Women of the North
1960
Life of a Country Doctor
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A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first ti...
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Life of a Country Doctor
1948
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
5/1
Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and assa...
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A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1938
The Giant
6/1
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...
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The Giant
1944
The Cruel Sea
0/0
It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...
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The Cruel Sea
1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
6.5/2
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
1940
Wedding Day
0/0
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of...
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Wedding Day
1939
Machi
0/0
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Machi
1940
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
0/0
Part one of two.
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Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1938
Winter Inn
0/0
A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by...
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Winter Inn
1940
Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
0/0
Part two of two.
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Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
1935
Throwing the Soul Away
0/0
The film centres around junior high school students. They are members of the school's baseball team. They are very good. Izawa's father asks him to st...
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Throwing the Soul Away
1939
Shanghai Landing Party
5/1
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a document...
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Shanghai Landing Party
1940
Toyuki
0/0
Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter countr...
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Toyuki
1956
Women in Prison
1/1
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...
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Women in Prison
1943
The Opium War
0/0
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The Opium War
1960
The Wayside Pebble
0/0
In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going well...
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The Wayside Pebble
1947
Three-Fingered Detective
0/0
Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large trac...
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Three-Fingered Detective
1937
Mother's Melody
0/0
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Mother's Melody
1941
Story of Leadership
0/0
In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...
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Story of Leadership
1938
Pastoral Symphony
0/0
A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.
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Pastoral Symphony
1937
The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
0/0
A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man...
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The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
1952
The Wind Blows Twice
0/0
Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a weal...
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The Wind Blows Twice
1942
Sky of Hope
0/0
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...
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Sky of Hope
1939
Beautiful Departure
0/0
A rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only the family's second daughter who has an insecure bone...
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Beautiful Departure
1939
Women in Tokyo
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This is the story of a woman who enters the world of sales. She works at a company in Ginza as a typist. She determines that she needs money for her f...
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