Hisako Hara obituary and filmography

[Michael E Kerpan Jr]

Thanks for this additional information, Aaron.

As far as I can tell, the role Hisako Hara played in Yamanaka's film was a 
small one -- probably the wife (?) of the rich man whose daughter Morita is 
sponsoring for marriage to the young samurai (who I don't think we ever see). 
She doesn't say anything -- mainly she sits fanning her merchant husband.

Hara doesn't make it onto JMDB's "Kuroi ame" cast list -- it's like she had 
seventh billing and they only list six performers. ;~}

MEK

On Thursday 08 December 2005 09:41, Aaron Gerow wrote:
> Unfortunately, the IMDb has lots of such mistakes, so it is not
> surprising that this happened. What makes matters worse is that not
> only has Hara Hisako's entries (????) been spread among two people, but
> that the actress who did Aki tachinu, Sarariman shusse daikoki and
> other films is Hara Chisako (????) according to the JMDB.
>
> This should remind us all never to use IMDb info in a publication
> unless you cross check it (though that is good advice for information
> from any reference source--the JMDb and even KineJun get it wrong
> occasionally).
>
> According to the Japanese obit, Hara Hisako joined Zenshinza, which
> explains early films like Humanity and Paper Baloons and Abe ichizoku.
> She also appeared a lot on TV, especially on variety shows, and was
> known to some as "Japan's grandma". Her last film was Takenaka Naoto's
> Sayonara Color.
>
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