Setsuko Hara
In addition to the three "Noriko" films, Ozu directed her in three other roles: as an unhappily married wife in "Tokyo Twilight" ("Tokyo Boshoku" 1957), as the mother of a marriageable daughter in "Late Autumn" ("Akibiyori", 1960) and the daughter-in-law of a sake plant owner in the director's penultimate film, "The End of Summer" ("Kohayagawa-ke no Aki", 1961). Bordwell summed up the critical consensus of Hara's significance to the late work of Ozu when he wrote, "After 1948, Setsuko Hara becomes the archetypal Ozu woman, either the bride-to-be or the widow of middle years."