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  • The End Of Summer
  • The End Of Summer review by Savage from London, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars 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
  • Naruse - Volume One review by ChesterDent from London, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars 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
  • Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn review by A customer from Glasgow
    Rated - 4.0 stars 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


  • The End Of Summer on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Setsuko Hara,  Daisuke Kato,  Ganjiro Nakamura
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Yasujiro Ozu's penultimate film is an examination of the difficulties faced by the Kohayagawa family as they struggle to adapt their traditional values to a rapidly changing post-war Japan. Elderly patriach, Manbei tries to marry off two of his daughters, struggles to keep the family's saki ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 888 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Chishu Ryu,  Shima Iwashita,  Keiji Sada
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 303 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning (1959)
    Starring: Ineko Arima,  Setsuko Hara,  Chishu Ryu
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 218 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Tokyo Twilight (1957)
    Starring: Ineko Arima,  Setsuko Hara,  Chishu Ryu
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 222 members
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  • Early Summer - Blu-ray (1951)
    Starring: Chikage Awashima,  Chishu Ryu,  Setsuko Hara
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 122 members
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  • The Idiot on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Setsuko Hara,  Toshiro Mifune,  Masayuki Mori
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Akira Kurosawa's The Idiot, his only adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoevsky novel, was a cherished project on which it is claimed he expended more effort than on any other film. A darkly ambitious exploration of the depths of human emotion, it combines the talents of two of the greatest Japanese actors ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 793 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 1 (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Chishu Ryu,  Setsuko Hara,  Chieko Higashiyama
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Yasujiro Ozu is regarded by many as the finest film director of all time. His films, which tend to portray the subtle conflict between traditional Japanese culture and contemporary modern values, are made in an elegant, restrained, formalist style that belie the emotional intensity they convey. '..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,703 member
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  • Early Kurosawa - Collection (4 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Takako Irie,  Isao Numazaki,  Chieko Nakakita
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Six early films by Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa. The films included comprise: 'Sanshuro Sugata' (1943), 'Sanshuro Sugata No 2' (1945), 'The Most Beautiful' (1944), 'The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail' (1952), 'No Regrets For Our Youth' (1946) and 'One Wonderful Sunday' (1947).
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 36 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 4 (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Chishu Ryu,  Shima Iwashita,  Keiji Sada
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 286 members
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