Setsuko Hara Updates

“Best known for her collaborations with director Yasujiro Ozu in the Noriko trilogy (where she played three different characters, all named Noriko), Setsuko Hara elevated the portrayal of tragic heroines into something akin to an art form. A majority of her characters are women in crisis, quietly and resolutely making their way in the world. Of course, it is Hara’s ability to invest her characters with an understated dignity and strip a role down to its most basic form.

Noriko represents a generation of Japanese women who underwent transition in Post-war Japan. They were strong-willed to survive through the war and war-related famine. And the post-war changes in laws, gave women more freedom to choose their path in life. Yet there’s a pull from the middle-class, conservativ”

“Best known for her collaborations with director Yasujiro Ozu in the Noriko trilogy (where she played three different characters, all named Noriko), Setsuko Hara elevated the portrayal of tragic heroines into something akin to an art form. A majority of her characters are women in crisis, quietly and resolutely making their way in the world. Of course, it is Hara’s ability to invest her characters with an understated dignity and strip a role down to its most basic form.

Noriko represents a generation of Japanese women who underwent transition in Post-war Japan. They were strong-willed to survive through the war and war-related famine. And the post-war changes in laws, gave women more freedom to choose their path in life. Yet there’s a pull from the middle-class, conservativ”