FrameThrower · Actors · Setsuko Hara
Setsuko Hara
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1946–1951
Born 17 June 1920 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · died 5 September 2015
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Setsuko Hara was a Japanese actress who appeared in six of Yasujirō Ozu's films, most notably as Noriko in the "Noriko Trilogy": Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1951), and Tokyo Story (1953). Her other films for Ozu were Tokyo Twilight (1957), Late Autumn (1960), and finally The End of Summer in 1961.
She was born Masae Aida in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1946–1951
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress1952
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Setsuko takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 59% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Setsuko takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Setsuko Hara's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.