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Setsuko Hara

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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. To some extent, reality mirrored her roles in these films... See full bio »

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Masae Aida
in Yokohama, Japan
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1966 Big Wind from Tokyo
 
1966 The Great White Tower
 
1962 Chushingura
Riku Oishi
 
1962 My Daughter and I
Chizuko Iwatani
 
1961 The End of Summer
Akiko
 
1961 Fundoshi isha
Iku, Wife of Keisai
 
1961 Musume to watashi (TV series)
– Episode #1.1 (1961)
 
1960 Late Autumn
Akiko Miwa
 
1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae Soga
 
1960 The Wayside Pebble
Oren Aikawa
 
1959 Nippon tanjô
Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess
 
1959 Onna gokoro
 
1958 A Holiday in Tokyo
 
1958 Onna de aru koto
 
1957 Zokuzoku Ôban: Dôto uhen
 
1957 Saigo no dasso
 
1957 Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
 
1957 Tokyo Twilight
Takako Numata
 
1957 Ôban
 
1957 Chieko-sho
 
1956 Ani to sono musume
 
1956 Jôshû to tomo ni
Sugiyama, manager
 
1956 Aijô no kessan
 
1956 Sudden Rain
Fumiko
 
1955 Non-chan kumo ni noru
Nobuko's mother
 
1955 Utsukushiki haha
 
1954 Sound of the Mountain
Ogata Kikuko
 
1953 Tokyo Story
Noriko Hirayama
 
1953 Shirauo
Sachiko
 
1952 Tôkyô no koibito
Yuki
 
1952 Kin no tamago: Golden girl
 
1951 Meshi
Michiyo Okamoto
 
1951 Early Summer
Noriko Mamiya
 
1951 The Idiot
Taeko Nasu
 
1950 Nanairo no hana
 
1950 Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
Kayoko Amamiya
 
1950 Joi no Shinsatsushitsu
Dr. Tajima
 
1949 Late Spring
Noriko Somiya
 
1949 Zoku aoi sanmyaku
 
1949 Aoi sanmyaku
Yukiko Shimazaki
 
1949 Here's to the Girls
Yasuko Ikeda
 
1948 Taifuken no onna
 
1948 Yuwaku
 
1947 Anjô-ke no butôkai
Atsuko, 2nd daughter
 
1947 Sanbon yubi no otoko
 
1946 No Regrets for Our Youth
Yukie Yagihara
 
1945 Three Women of the North
 
1945 Until Victory Day (short)
 
1943 Wakaki hi no yorokobi
Yasuko Hozumi
 
1943 Bôrô no kesshitai
 
1943 Ahen senso
Airan (Ai Lan)
 
1942 Hawai Marê oki kaisen
 
1942 Map for Mother
Kirie
 
1942 Wakai sensei
Tomiko Hirayama
 
1942 Currents of Youth
 
1942 Kibo no aozora
 
1941 Shidô monogatari
Kuniko
 
1940 Futari no sekai
 
1940 Onna no machi
Ine, Shinjiro's wife
 
1940 Hebihime-sama
Koto Hime
 
1940 Totsugu hi made
Yoshiko
 
1940 Toyuki
Actress of Showa Kinema
 
1939 Onna no kyôshitsu - Chû-kôhen
Chen Fengying
 
1939 Onna no kyôshitsu - Gakkô no maki: Nanatsu no omokage
Chen Fengying
 
1939 Shanhai rikusentai
Mingzhu - Chinese girl
 
1939 Chûshingura: Kôhen
Oteru
 
1939 Chûshingura: Zenpen
'Ichiriki' nakai - O-Teru
 
1939 Uruwashiki shuppatsu
Tomiko Hojo
 
1939 Tokyo no josei
Setsuko Kimizuka
 
1938 Fuyu no yado
 
1938 Den'en kôkyôgaku
Yukiko
 
1938 Kyojin-den
Chiyo
 
1937 Tôkai Bijoden
 
1937 Atarashiki tsuchi
Misuko Yamato
 
1937 Kenji to sono imôto
 
1936 Priest of Darkness
Onami
 
1935 Tama o nagero
 
1935 Tamerau nakare wakodo yo
Osetsu
 
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Height:

5' 4¼" (1.63 m)
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Nickname:

The Eternal Virgin See more »

Star Sign:

Gemini