List of the best Setsuko Hara movies: Late Autumn(1960), Late Spring(1949), Early Summer(1951), The End of Summer(1962), Tokyo Story(1953), Tokyo Twilight(1957) ... ...
Drama
Japan
1960
128 Minutes
Akiko Miwa
Setsuko Hara Yoko Tsukasa Mariko Okada Keiji Sada Miyuki Kuwano Shinichiro Mikami Shin Saburi Chishu Ryu Nobuo Nakamura Kuniko Miyake Sadako Sawamura
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
Drama
1949
107 Minutes
Noriko Somiya
Setsuko Hara Chishu Ryu Haruko Sugimura Jun Usami
widower professor daughter aunt fiancée endearing touching family home japan theater family marriage social standing conformity sacrifice love 1940s
A widowed professor (Chishû Ryû) fakes an impending marriage to spur his adult daughter (Setsuko Hara) to get on with her life.
Drama
1951
124 Minutes
Noriko Mamiya
Setsuko Hara Chishu Ryu Kuniko Miyake Chikage Awashima Chieko Higashiyama Kuniko Igawa Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
career woman daughter brother mother father businessman emotional moving tokyo family home office city japan marriage tradition independence family working woman love triangle love
Drama, Romance
Japan
1962
103 Minutes
Ganjirô Nakamura Setsuko Hara Yoko Tsukasa Keiju Kobayashi Michiyo Aratama Chieko Naniwa Daisuke Kato
father daughter mistress son-in-law grandson emotional melodramatic kyoto, japan household brewery aging father/daughter relationship family deception sister relationship romance love discovery 1960s
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
Drama
1953
134 Minutes
Noriko Hirayama
Chishu Ryu Chieko Higashiyama Setsuko Hara Haruko Sugimura Sô Yamamura Kuniko Miyake Kyoko Kagawa Eijiro Tono Nobuo Nakamura Shiro Osaka Hisao Toake
father mother doctor hairdresser daughter-in-law soldier brooding sad somber tokyo osaka, japan train family home family aging death quest transformation 1950s
An elderly Japanese couple (Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama) visit their busy children but are not treated with respect.
Drama
1957
140 Minutes
Takako Numata
Ineko Arima Kamatari Fujiwara Setsuko Hara Nobuo Nakamura Chishu Ryu Kinzô Shin Haruko Sugimura Teiji Takahashi Masami Taura Isuzu Yamada Sô Yamamura