Setsuko Hara
Setsuko Hara was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan on June 17th, 1920 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 95, Setsuko Hara biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Early career
Setsuko Hara was born in a family with three sons and five daughters in what is now Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama. In 1935, her elder sister married film director Hisatora Kumagai, which brought her right into the cinema world: he advised her to drop out of school, which she did, and then she began to work with Nikkatsu Studios in Tamagawa, outside Tokyo. In Do Not Hesitate Young Folks, she debuted at the age of 15 with a stage name that the studio gave her. (do yo) wakdo tamerau (wake wakdo yo).
She rose to fame in 1937's German-Japanese co-production Die Tochter des Samurai (The Daughter of the Samurai), which was based in Japan as Atarashiki Tsuchi (The New Earth), directed by Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami. Hara plays a woman who tries to immolate herself in a volcano. In many of her films until World War II, including The Suicide Troops (1942), directed by Tadashi Imai, and Towards the Decisive Battle in the Sky, directed by Kunio Watanabe, she continued to portray tragic heroines.
Postwar career
After 1945, Hara returned to Japan and continued to film. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), Akira Kurosawa's first war film, starred her. She also worked with director Kimisaburo Yoshimura in A Ball at the Anjo House (1947) and Keisuke Kinoshita in Here's to the Girls (1949). She was portrayed as the "new" Japanese woman in all of these films, looking forward to a promising future. However, in most of her films, especially those directed by Yasujir and Mikio Naruse, she plays the typical Japanese woman as either daughter, wife, or mother.
Late Spring (1949), Hara's first film of six was shot with Yasujir Ozu, and the two films would continue for the next twelve years. Despite her family's advises, she plays Noriko, a faithful daughter who prefers to remain at home and care for her father rather than marrying. Noriko, who wanted to get married but was able to do so without her family's approval in Early Summer (1951). This was followed by Tokyo Story (1953), perhaps her and Ozu's best-known film in which she played a widow, and Noriko whose husband was killed in the war. Her devotion to her deceased husband worries about her in-laws, who say that she should move on and remarry.
In the film Chushingura (1962), Hara's last major role was Riku, the wife of ishi Yoshio.