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→ Setsuko Hara as Noriko in Late Spring (1949) / Early Summer (1951) and Tokyo Story (1953) Directed By: Yasujiro Ozu  

麦秋 Bakushū (Early Summer). Yasujirō Ozu. 1951.

麦秋 Bakushū (Early Summer). Yasujirō Ozu. 1951.

That 1963 disappearance was a scandal. She had been the most beloved of film stars, her handsome face, accepting smile, known to all. And then, suddenly, rudely, without a word of apology, she was going to disappear—to retire.

Here, where the stars hang on, voluntary retirement is unknown, particularly for one the caliber of Setsuko Hara. She had become an ideal: men wanted to marry someone like her; women wanted to be someone like her.

This was because on the screen she reconciled her life as real people cannot. Whatever her role in films—daughter, wife, or mother—she played a woman who at the same time, somehow, was herself. Her social roles did not eclipse that individual self, our Setsuko.

— Donald Richie, Japanese Portraits

Setsuko Hara Born June 17, 1920

Setsuko Hara in Early Summer, 1951. [x]