Setsuko Hara Movies

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

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...

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings during a...

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

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

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki...

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

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

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...

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.