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 Posted:   Nov 25, 2015 - 11:26 AM   
 By:   Chickenhearted   (Member)

Setsuko Hara passed away on September 5, 2015, at the age of 95. It was reported by the Media on November 25, 2015.

Legendary actress Setsuko Hara, who starred in the Yasujiro Ozu movie "Tokyo Story," died of pneumonia on Sept. 5 at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture, her family said Wednesday. She was 95.She was the heroine in golden-age Japanese movies including the Ozu works "Tokyo Story" in 1953 and "Late Spring" in 1949, as well as in "The Green Mountains" directed by Tadashi Imai in 1949, "El Idiota" by Akira Kurosawa in 1951 and "Repast" by Naruse Mikio in 1951.
The actress, whose real name was Masae Aida, was born in Yokohama and made her debut as a movie actress in 1935. She retired in 1962 at the age of 42 and lived in de facto seclusion for decades in Kamakura in Kanagawa near Tokyo.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2015 - 12:34 PM   
 By:   Angelillo   (Member)

She has been, along with Mariko Okada, my all-time favourite japanese actress ever.

Her collaboration with Ozu ? Simply as stellar as Rosselini-Bergman's or Bergman-Ullman's ones !

A beautiful and poignant actress !


Incidentally Chickenhearted, mind the typo... wink

 
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