Setsuko Hara

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1920-06-17 (95 years old)

Deathday

2015-09-05

Place of Birth

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Setsuko Hara

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...

Acting

1943

Hot Wind

as Kumiko Takagi

1949

Late Spring

as Noriko Somiya

1960

Late Autumn

as Akiko Miwa

1951

The Idiot

as Taeko Nasu

1993

Talking with Ozu

as Self (archive footage)

1961

1946

No Regrets for Our Youth

as Yukie Yagihara

1962

Chûshingura

as Riku Oishi

1953

White Fish

as Sachiko

1947

The Age of Beginnings

as Miyako Tomoda

1951

Repast

as Michiyo Okamoto

1954

Sound of the Mountain

as Ogata Kikuko

1953

Tokyo Story

as Noriko Hirayama

1951

Early Summer

as Noriko Mamiya

1957

Tokyo Twilight

as Takako Numata

1957

Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

as Kanako Arishima

1958

Oban kanketsu hen

as Kanako Arishima

1957

Ôban

as Kanako Mori

1957

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

as Kanako Arishima

1949

1947

1949

The Blue Mountains: Part I

as Yukiko Shimazaki

2023

Noriko Setsuko

as Noriko Setsuko

2023

Noriko Setsuko 2

as Noriko Setsuko

1959

The Three Treasures

as Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess

1937

1956

1942

Currents of Youth

as Makiko Yuijima

1956

Sudden Rain

as Fumiko Namiki

1936

1948

Temptation

as Takako

1949

The Blue Mountains: Part II

as Yukiko Shimazaki

1940

The Snake Princess

as Koto Hime

1948

1952

1940

Wedding Day

as Yoshiko

1939

Machi

as Sonomi Kihara

1939

Shanghai Landing Party

as Mingzhu - Chinese girl

1940

Toyuki

as Showa Kinema Actress

1956

Women in Prison

as Prison Officer

1960

The Wayside Pebble

as Oren Aikawa

1937

1941

1952

The Wind Blows Twice

as Kanae Hisamatsu

1942

Sky of Hope

as Chizuko

1939

Women in Tokyo

as 君塚節子

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