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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 ĹŚishi Yoshio, in the 1962 film Chushingura. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of the 2001 movie Millennium Actress.
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| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | Chûshingura (1962) | Riku Oishi | 6 | |
| 2 | Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960) | Sanae Soga | 2 | |
| 3 | Late Autumn (1960) | Akiko Miwa | 7 | |
| 4 | Tokyo Twilight (1957) | Takako Numata | 1 | |
| 5 | Tokyo Story (1953) | Noriko Hirayama | 7.2 | |
| 6 | Early Summer (1951) | Noriko Mamiya | 4.5 | |
| 7 | The Idiot (1951) | Taeko Nasu | 7 | |
| 8 | Repast (1951) | Michiyo Okamoto | - | - |
| 9 | Late Spring (1949) | Noriko Somiya | 4.5 | |
| 10 | The Blue Mountains: Part I (1949) | Yukiko Shimazaki | 4 | |
| 11 | The Blue Mountains: Part II (1949) | Yukiko Shimazaki | 3 | |
| 12 | Here's to the Young Lady (1949) | Yasuko Ikeda | 4 | |
| 13 | No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) | Yukie Yagihara | 4 | |
| 14 | The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya (1942) | Kikuko | 4 | |
| 15 | Priest of Darkness (1936) | Onami | 4 |
