Setsuko Hara — Actor (14)
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Currents of Youth (1942)
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Osamu Fushimizu actor: Setsuko Hara / Hisako Yamane …
other title: 青春の気流
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beautiful and aggressive. Yet, he picks a woman who is less assertive as his bride.
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Life of a Country Doctor (1960)
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Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Takashi Shimura / Hisaya Morishige …
other title: ふんどし医者
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, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful he himself wants to become a physician.
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Three-Fingered Detective (1947)
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Sadatsugu Matsuda actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Ken Mitsuda …
other title: 三本指の男
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 teacher and was rumoured to have had an affair, which explains why the groom's family opposed the union. On the night of the ceremony the bride and groom are killed in a sealed room. There is evidence left, however, as there is a hand print on the wall albeit with only the trace of three fingers.
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Woman Unveiled (1958)
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Yūzō Kawashima actor: Setsuko Hara / Yoshiko Kuga …
other title: 女であること
A childless lawyer and his wife take in the quiet daughter of an imprisoned client, whose presence eventually creates romantic tension with the husband. The household dynamic is further disrupted by the arrival of a bold friend from Osaka and the wife's chance encounter with a former flame.
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The Age of Beginnings (1947)
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Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Susumu Fujita / Setsuko Hara …
other title: かけ出し時代
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.
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Three Women of the North (1945)
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Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Setsuko Hara / Hideko Takamine …
other title: 北の三人
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with one of them working with her dead fiancé's sister. The engaged man had gone to war and never returned.
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Sudden Rain (1956)
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Mikio Naruse actor: Setsuko Hara / 佐野周二 …
other title: Pluie soudaine / Chaparrón …
Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out recipes from the newspaper before he finishes reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, who visits to complain about her own husband's inattentiveness, and their new neighbours, the Imasatos.