Late Spring
1972
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Setsuko Hara became one of Japan's best-loved stars over her 30-year film career. Her signature character type, variations on a daughter devoted to her parents and home, inspired the nickname that stayed with her until retirement: the Eternal Virgin.
Setsuko Hara (原 節子, Hara Setsuko, 17 June 1920 – 5 September 2015) was a Japanese actress. Though best known for her performances in Yasujirō Ozu's films Late Spring (1949) and Tokyo Story (1953), she had already appeared in 67 films before working with Ozu.
Jun 10, 2020 · Golden Age film star Hara Setsuko was born 100 years ago, on June 17, 1920. Nonfiction writer Ishii Taeko talks about her search for the real person behind the pure and proper image that led to...
Setsuko Hara. Actress: Late Spring. Setsuko Hara became one of Japan's best-loved stars over her 30-year film career. Her signature character type, variations on a daughter devoted to her parents and home, inspired the nickname that stayed with her until retirement: the Eternal Virgin.
Nov 30, 2015 · The camera is settled and moves tight on the body and face of the exquisite Noriko, played by the wonderful Setsuko Hara, in her first film with Ozu. Her face—open, delicate, mysterious—conjures a whole range of emotion and feeling from the lilting to the heartbreaking.
Nov 28, 2015 · Setsuko Hara, one of Japan’s most beloved actresses, best known for her subtle portrayals of women torn between the demands of family and their own desires in “Late Spring,” “Tokyo...
Starring Setsuko Hara, Shuji Sano, Sugisaku Aoyama. Director Keisuke Kinoshita delicately balances humor and melodrama in this gentle romantic comedy. Class tensions threaten to derail a budding romance when a young woman (the luminous Setsuko Hara) fr...
Sep 22, 2022 · Hara, always the dutiful (but pained) woman, is heartbreaking in the scene where she accepts the marriage proposal from her future mother-in-law. This understated style (though not quite as blank as Dreyer’s models) is the essence of Ozu’s methodology- and exactly what he wanted from his players.
Nov 25, 2015 · TOKYO — Setsuko Hara, the muse of Yasujiro Ozu as well as other directors of Japanese cinema’s 1950s and ’60s Golden Age, died on September 5 of pneumonia in a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture,...
Nov 26, 2015 · Setsuko Hara: Actress adored in Japan and abroad for her sensitivity and best known for her work with Yasujiro Ozu. Hara's most famous films belong to the 1950s, and included...
