Setsuko Hara Movies

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

A silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished...

Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and...

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

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

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

When a family comprised of a couple with one son is hurled into poverty when the businessman father loses his business, the mother and son move to...

The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond...

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there...

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is...

In a household of three the husband is a salaryman who lives with his younger sister and wife in Tokyo. He is returning home late in the evenings...

On the night before her wedding to her fiancé, Nakagawa, Kyoko Kagawa is spending time with her high school teacher and close friends. The...

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

A childless lawyer and his wife take in the quiet daughter of an imprisoned client, whose presence eventually creates romantic tension with the...

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

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...

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

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...