Late Spring
1972
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Setsuko Hara was born Masae Aida (会田 昌江, Aida Masae) in what is now Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama in a family with three sons and five daughters. Her elder sister was married to film director Hisatora Kumagai, which gave her an entry into the world of the cinema: he encouraged her to drop out of school, which she did, and then she went to work for Nikkatsu Studios in Tamagawa, outside Tokyo ...
Nov 28, 2015 · Setsuko Hara, center, in “Tokyo Story” (1953), directed by Yasujiro Ozu, with whom she had a 12-year collaboration. Ms. Hara began acting at 15 and retired from film in the early 1960s.
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. To some extent, reality mirrored her roles in these films.
Nov 30, 2015 · What registers most forcefully in the moment is the optimistic sense of wonder, subliminally evoked by the most contemplative of gestures. “Late Spring” signaled Ozu’s haunting and extraordinary late period, and Hara was a primary and indelible emotional instrument of that greatness.
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 ...
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. To some extent, reality mirrored her roles in these films. In a society that considers marriage and parenting ...
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 ...
No actress represents the golden age of Japanese cinema more fully than Setsuko Hara, whose radiant, compassionate presence made her nothing less than the living symbol of the changing role of women in Japanese society. Beginning her career at age fifteen, she appeared in more than one hundred films, including works by Akira Kurosawa (NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH, THE IDIOT) and Mikio Naruse ...
Nov 30, 2015 · Setsuko Hara, the Japanese actress who has died aged 95, enigmatically foreswore the acting profession, walking away from a successful film career in 1963, but remained unforgettable for her ...
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 The Idiot, and Tokyo ...
