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From Pico Iyer's Autumn Light
Setsuko Hara, who takes on the name of Noriko in one Ozu film after another, smiles more brilliantly the more she's pushing down her losses; in life, as soon as Ozu died, the actresses retreated to a house in Kamakura, where the never married director was buried (under a black stone, that says, simply, "nothingness"), and, unmarried herself, seldom showed her face in public again. It wasn't hard for the press to cast her as the true-life daughter she plated in Late Spring, tending to her honorary father's memory till she becomes a nun like figure in her nineties, coming out only to lat flowers on his grave.
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From Pico Iyer's Autumn Light
Setsuko Hara, who takes on the name of Noriko in one Ozu film after another, smiles more brilliantly the more she's pushing down her losses; in life, as soon as Ozu died, the actresses retreated to a house in Kamakura, where the never married director was buried (under a black stone, that says, simply, "nothingness"), and, unmarried herself, seldom showed her face in public again. It wasn't hard for the press to cast her as the true-life daughter she plated in Late Spring, tending to her honorary father's memory till she becomes a nun like figure in her nineties, coming out only to lat flowers on his grave.
Image from wikipedia
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