Cast: Setsuko Hara

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Setsuko Hara. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Tokyo Story

1953 · Movie · 139 min. · Japan

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Chieko Higashiyama · Setsuko Hara · Sô Yamamura

Plot An elderly couple visit their children in Tokyo, only to be passed around from family to family.

Max

8.2

12K votes

8.2

12K votes

Tokyo Twilight

1957 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Ineko Arima · Kamatari Fujiwara · Setsuko Hara · Nobuo Nakamura

Plot Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an affair and becomes pregnant. The elder sister has run away from her husband and returned with her...

Max

8.1

1K votes

8.1

1K votes

Late Spring

1949 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Setsuko Hara · Chishu Ryu · Hohi Aoki · Masao Mishima

Plot A widower who lives with his daughter wants her to get married, but she doesn't want to leave him alone. He will pretend that he is about to marry in...

Max

8.1

4K votes

8.1

4K votes

Early Summer

1951 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Setsuko Hara · Chishu Ryu · Chikage Awashima · Kuniko Miyake

Plot 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...

Max

8.0

1K votes

8.0

1K votes

Sound of the Mountain

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

7.7

677 votes

7.7

677 votes

The End of Summer

1961 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Max

7.7

568 votes

7.7

568 votes

Late Autumn

1960 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Max

7.7

1K votes

7.7

1K votes

Repast

1951 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ken Uehara · Setsuko Hara · Yukiko Shimazaki · Yôko Sugi

Plot Set shortly after World War II, Repast is about a struggling marriage between salaryman Hatsunosuke and his wife Michiyo. It focuses on the emotional crisis of the bored housewife. The...

7.4

162 votes

7.4

162 votes

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

1960 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Hara · Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Hiroshi Koizumi

Plot It concerns an aging mother who lives in Tokyo, her five grown children, and several of their spouses, nearly all of whom have money troubles. When one of the daughters...

7.4

98 votes

7.4

98 votes

47 Ronin

1962 · Movie · 207 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Akira Takarada · Koshiro Matsumoto

Plot A young lord attempts to combat the official corruption endemic to the Shogunate, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to bribe a Chancelor who...

7.3

768 votes

7.3

768 votes

The Ball at the Anjo House

1947 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Setsuko Hara · Osamu Takizawa · Masayuki Mori · Yumeko Aizome

Plot After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the...

7.1

61 votes

7.1

61 votes

Sudden Rain

1956 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Hara · Keiju Kobayashi · Shûji Sano · Akemi Negishi

Plot Sudden Rain dwells on how the negative aspects of married life can become overwhelming and quite stressful. Setsuko Hara plays a woman whose entire existence seems to boil down to...

6.9

51 votes

6.9

51 votes

The Idiot

1951 · Movie · 166 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Masayuki Mori · Setsuko Hara · Takashi Shimura

Plot Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

No Regrets for Our Youth

1946 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Setsuko Hara · Susumu Fujita · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Haruko Sugimura

Plot Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings, and even more so when her lover, one...

6.6

370 votes

6.6

370 votes

6.3

63 votes

The Three Treasures

1959 · Movie · 177 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Akihiko Hirata · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers...

6.3

215 votes

6.3

215 votes

The Country Doctor

1960 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan

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Here's to the Lady

1949 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Shûji Sano · Setsuko Hara · Sugisaku Aoyama · Fusako Fujima

Plot Keizo Ishizu (Shuji Sano), owner of a car shop in Tokyo, meets Yasuko Ikeda (Setsuko Hara), the daughter of a former aristocratic family, on a matchmaking date arranged by Mr....

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Not rated

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

1957 · Movie · 121 min. · Japan

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Not rated

Mother's Song, Part II

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · Japan

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Yuriko Hanabusa · Setsuko Hara · Takako Irie · Tomoko Ito

Plot This film was inspired by the novel Stella Dallas by Olive Higgins Prouty and was initially released in two parts, respectively in 79 minutes and 70 minutes of length. They...

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Not rated