Setsuko Hara Movies

Tokyo Story

82/100

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them.

Late Spring

83/100

Noriko is twenty-seven years old and still living with her widowed father. Everybody tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay at home caring for her father.

Early Summer

82/100

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

The Idiot

74/100

A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Kameda where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.

Late Autumn

82/100

A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.

The End of Summer

80/100

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.

Tôkyô boshoku

83/100

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

Yama no oto

81/100

The businessman Ogata Shingo works with his son Shuichi, who is his secretary, and they live together in the suburb with their wives Yasuko and Kikuko respectively. Shuichi has a love ... See full summary »

Meshi

79/100

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

The Ball at the Anjo House

75/100

After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life...

Aoi sanmyaku

70/100

When a post-war high school girl is seen with an older boy many find the nontraditional notion unacceptable and try to trick the girl and also assail her right to continue the relationship.... See full summary »

Hawai · Maree oki kaisen

65/100

When a boy who is in the navy college returns home for vacation he meets his young cousin who also wants to join in order to become a pilot. However, the younger man's mother is ... See full summary »

Die Tochter des Samurai

62/100

Teruo is an adopted son of an old samurai family that returns to Japan after living in Germany and is expected to marry Mitsuko. But he's struggling to readjust to Japan and intends to marry an Aryan woman.

Zoku aoi sanmyaku

64/100

In this sequel to Aoi sanmyaku (1949) the focus is not on the students', but the teachers' life. When one day a love letter is discovered it escalates into case over which teacher and ... See full summary »

Non-chan kumo ni noru

61/100

The film was adopted from the bestselling novel by Momoko Ishii, which was published following World War II. When a girl is in danger of drowning in a lake she had perceived as the clouds, ... See full summary »

Bôrô no kesshitai

67/100

The story centres around a border security team in 1935 Korea. Upon receiving new recruits they hold a welcome party including a restaurant owner and his daughter. The border's commander ... See full summary »

No Regrets for Our Youth

72/100

The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII.

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

74/100

Sudden Rain

72/100

Here's to the Girls

72/100

Goro is not Keizo's real brother, though he call Keizo "aniki" (brother). Goro was an orphan whose parents were killed in the war, and was raised and trained by Keizo.

Chushingura (Go)

66/100

Toho All-Star Cast.

Fundoshi isha

40/100

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, ... See full summary »

Shanhai rikusentai

69/100

A documentary style film that depicts the battle in Shanghai during World War II using the city and its actual ruins as an actual backdrop to the narrative. The realism extended to the use ... See full summary »

Sanbon yubi no otoko

64/100

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large tracts of land. The bride is a former ... See full summary »

Tokyo Sweetheart

73/100

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined...