BIO

Setsuko Hara (原節子) was born Masae Aida (会田昌江) in 1920, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Her elder sister was married to a film director and this connection gave Hara her start in the industry.   Over a 30 year film career, beginning in 1935 at the age of 15, she became one of Japan’s most beloved actresses.

She was referred to as the Eternal Virgin because she never married.

Shortly after film director Yasujirou Ozu’s death in 1963 and after a career spanning more than 75 feature films, Hara left the movie industry and lived in seclusion until her death, in 2015, at the age of 95.

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