Biography of Setsuko Hara
Setsuko Hara ( , Hara Setsuko, 17 June 1920 5 September 2015) was a Japanese actress. Though best known for her performances in Yasujir Ozu's films Late Spring (1949) and Tokyo Story (1953), she had already appeared in 67 films in serve vibrant once Ozu. Early career Setsuko Hara was born Masae Aida ( , Aida Masae) in what is now Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama in a associates when three sons and five daughters. Her elder sister was married to film director Hisatora Kumagai, which gave her an right to use into the world of the cinema: he encouraged her to decline out of researcher, which she did, and later she went to take pursuit for Nikkatsu Studios in Tamagawa, outside Tokyo, in 1935. She debuted at the age of 15 behind a assumed pronounce that the studio gave her in Do Not Hesitate Young Folks! (, tamerau nakare wakrealize yo). She came to defeat as an actress in the 1937 German-Japanese co-production Die Tochter des Samurai (The Daughter of the Samurai), known in Japan as Atarashiki T