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Setsuko Hara

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Setsuko Hara - what members say

The End Of Summer review by Savage from London, England

The end of many things 2 September 2006
... observation is still present and correct, and the acting is sublime (the great Setsuko Hara as the eldest daughter in particular, but also Ganjiro Nakabura as dad); the fo... Read customer review

Naruse - Volume One review by ChesterDent from London, England

Sound of the Mountain. 4 June 2007
...her-in-law - excellent performances from Ozu regular and 'Greta Garbo of Japan' Setsuko Hara and the prolific So Yamamura. It's an extremely contemplative and measured film... Read customer review

Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn review by A customer from Glasgow

Let yourself be drawn in 19 May 2010
...ry formal society of Japan in the early 1960s. A very touching performance from Setsuko Hara as the mother, hiding her feelings behind a fixed smile. A very clever touch, t... Read customer review

Setsuko Hara - filmography

Ozu - Vol. 3 Tokyo Twilight / Equinox Fl... (3 discs) (1969)
Starring: Ineko Arima, Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu
Director: Yasujiro Ozu, Yasukiro Ozu
Certificate:
Three features. In 'Tokyo Twilight' two sisters find their long-lost mother living in the family home with another man. Also includes 'Equinox Flower' and 'Good Morning'.

77% from 396 members
Not currently released

Ozu - Vol. 4 - An Autumn Afternoon on DVD (1962)
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Certificate:
Widower Shuhei Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) gradually comes to realize that his 24 year-old daughter should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life and so prepares to arrange a marriage for her.

78% from 231 members

The End Of Summer on DVD (1961)
Starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Michiyo Aratama, Reiko Dan
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Certificate:
As the families traditional sake business begins to suffers in the face of competition from a increasingly industrialised post-war Japan; the head of the family, Manbei, meets an old flame and restarts his friendship with her. The family disapproves but the old man does not care; he is further ..read more »

70% from 837 members

Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn on DVD (1960)
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Certificate:
Ayako Miwa (Yoko Tsukasa) gives up thoughts of marriage in order to care for her widowed mother Akiko (Setsuko Hara). However, Akiko wishes her daughter to marry even though she will be left alone into old age and when the well-meaning relatives of her deceased husband step into the fray suitors ..read more »

78% from 269 members

Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning (1959)
Starring: Ineko Arima, Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
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GOOD MORNING is an update on his earlier silent film I WAS BORN, BUT...(1932), focusing on the impact of western culture and the decline of traditional values amongst the youth of post war Japan. it is a sparkling and lively portrait of divergent shades of humanity.

79% from 198 members
Not currently released

Ozu - Vol. 3 - Equinox Flower (1958)
Starring: Ineko Arima, Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Certificate:
EQUINOX FLOWER is his first foray into colour cinema and is a gentle observation of interfenerational conflict between a father and his daughter over her impending unapproved marriage.

78% from 198 members
Not currently released

Ozu - Vol. 3 - Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Starring: Ineko Arima, Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
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TOKYO TWILIGHT was his last black and white film and focused on family disintegration; it is also his darkest masterpiece. two adult sisters return to the family home and discover their long missing mother living with another man, leading to a destructive path of despair and isolation.

78% from 203 members
Not currently released

Tokyo Story - Blu-ray (1953)
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Chieko Higashiyama
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Certificate:
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness.

76% from 547 members

The Idiot on DVD (1951)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Certificate:
Retelling of Fydor Dostoyevsky's novel, where the action is transferred from Russia to Northern Japan. An unstable war criminal acquitted of charges gets involved with two women...

64% from 741 members

Early Summer - Blu-ray (1951)
Starring: Chikage Awashima, Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Certificate:
In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, their married son, his devoted wife, and two rascally sons. Their only discontent is Noriko's lack of a husband. Society is changing: she works, she has women friends who tease and argue, her ..read more »

76% from 99 members

Late Spring - Blu-ray (1949)
Starring: Yumeji Tsukioka, Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Certificate:
A daughter and her father feel the social pressures around them when the daughter prefers to live with her father than be married.

80% from 117 members

Late Autumn / A Mother Should be Loved -...
Starring: Kuniko Miyake, Setsuko Hara, Yoko Tsukasa
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
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In director Yasujiro Ozu's drama LATE AUTUMN (AKIBIYORI), a still-beautiful widow has a daughter who is sufficiently past the favored age for marriage to be in danger of becoming an old maid according to the norms of Japanese culture. Three mature men, friends of the family, get together to discuss ..read more »

50% from 2 members

Ozu - Vol. 4 (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Certificate:
Late Autumn (aka: Akibiyori): Ayako Miwa (Yoko Tsukasa) gives up thoughts of marriage in order to care for her widowed mother Akiko (Setsuko Hara). However, Akiko wishes her daughter to marry even though she will be left alone into old age and when the well-meaning relatives of her deceased husband ..read more »

77% from 260 members

Naruse - Volume One (3 discs) on DVD
Starring: Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara, Yukiko Shimaza
Director: Mikio Naruse
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Presented here in a lavish box set, along with an accompanying book, the Masters Of Cinema series presents three of Mikio Naruse's finest films

79% from 223 members

The Ozu Collection - Three Melodramas
Starring: Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishu Ryu
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
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The BFI presents three films by Japanese master director Yasujiro Ozu. Melodrama is not a word usually associated with Ozu's quietly poetic oeuvre but his post-war Early Spring (1956) and Tokyo Twilight (1957) combine darker elements with his idiosyncratic style to create powerful dramas. Also ..read more »

47% from 4 members
Due for release on 18th June 2012

Early Kurosawa - Collection (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Susumu Fujita, Denjiro Okochi, Takeshi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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This collection features six early films from master Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa; the 1943 SANSHIRO SUGATA, Kurosawa's debut film, follows a judo student's difficult but compelling spiritual journey. Its sequel, SANSHIRO SUGATA: PART TWO (1945), continues the tale of Sanshiro and his quest to ..read more »

65% from 9 members

Ozu - Vol. 1 (3 discs) on DVD
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Chieko Higashiyama
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
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'Tokyo Story' is a depiction of life's disappointments and frustrations told through the eyes of an ageing couple who go to visit their grown-up son and daughter in Tokyo. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.

76% from 1,494 member

Setsuko Hara facts

5 most recent films

Ozu - Vol. 3 Tokyo Twilight / Equinox Flower / Good Morning - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 4 - An Autumn Afternoon - 4.0 stars
The End Of Summer - 3.5 stars
Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Late Spring - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Naruse - Volume One - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 3 - Equinox Flower - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 3 - Tokyo Twilight - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Ozu Collection - Three Melodramas - 2.5 stars
Late Autumn / A Mother Should be Loved - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Early Kurosawa - Collection - 3.5 stars
The Idiot - 3.0 stars
The End Of Summer - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Chishu Ryu - 12 times - show films
Yoko Tsukasa - 5 times - show films
Ineko Arima - 5 times - show films
Mariko Okada - 5 times - show films
Keiji Sada - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Yasujiro Ozu - 18 times - show films
Akira Kurosawa - 2 times - show films
Mikio Naruse - 1 times - show films
Yasukiro Ozu - 1 times - show films