All About Setsuko Hara
It's time to speak more about Setsuko Hara; some consider her the greatest. What is sure, she played unforgetable roles. And she gave each role all her generosity.
Look at this video: it is the final scene from a movie made in 1947: Anjo-ke no Butokai (The Ball at the Anjo House). The director is Kozaburo Yoshimura.
The war was lost, and the cultured and liberal Anjo family is stripped of all aristocratic titles and fortune. They give a last ball before leaving their mansion. Will they survive to all that happens? Setsuko Hara plays one of the daughters.
It is a scene where you can learn all about the roles played by Setsuko Hara: beauty, purity, tolerance, generosity, determination, and something that is over all these and cannot be defined easily; French folks name it je ne sais quoi.
I did not see the whole movie and so I don't know, it could be good, it could be mediocre. But I consider this the greatest scene ever played by Setsuko Hara. There are no subtitles; it doesn't matter: no need for them.
(Yasujiro Ozu and Setsuko Hara)
Look at this video: it is the final scene from a movie made in 1947: Anjo-ke no Butokai (The Ball at the Anjo House). The director is Kozaburo Yoshimura.
The war was lost, and the cultured and liberal Anjo family is stripped of all aristocratic titles and fortune. They give a last ball before leaving their mansion. Will they survive to all that happens? Setsuko Hara plays one of the daughters.
It is a scene where you can learn all about the roles played by Setsuko Hara: beauty, purity, tolerance, generosity, determination, and something that is over all these and cannot be defined easily; French folks name it je ne sais quoi.
I did not see the whole movie and so I don't know, it could be good, it could be mediocre. But I consider this the greatest scene ever played by Setsuko Hara. There are no subtitles; it doesn't matter: no need for them.
(Yasujiro Ozu and Setsuko Hara)
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posted by Pierre Radulescu at
11:28 PM
1 Comments:
It cannot be but a good film if we are to judge according to this scene. Setsuko Hara (whom I have seen only in Late Spring) reminds me more and more Ingrid Bergman - the eyes, the smile, the beauty which is not only external but also radiates from inside
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Dan Romascanu, at 4:32 AM
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