Chisako Hara

Chisako Hara
Hara in 1960
Born
Chisako Tahara

(1936-06-01)1 June 1936
Takaoka Town (now Tosa), Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
Died19 January 2020(2020-01-19) (aged 83)
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityJapanese
OccupationActress
Years active1956–2019
SpouseAkio Jissōji (1963–2006)

Chisako Hara (原知佐子, Hara Chisako, 6 January 1936 – 19 January 2020)[1] was a Japanese actress best known for starring in the Akai and the Kishibe no arubamu series.[2][3]

Biography

Chisako Hara was born Chisako Tahara (田原知佐子, Tahara Chisako) on 6 January 1936 in Takaoka Town (now Tosa), Kōchi Prefecture.[1] She gave her film debut at the Shintoho studios in 1956,[1][3] but later moved to Toho,[3] where she had a starring role in Kinuyo Tanaka's Girls of the Night (1961) and smaller parts in films of Mikio Naruse and Shirō Toyoda.[1] In the early 1960s, she became a freelancer and also started appearing on television.[3] During the 1970s, she became famous for her roles in the Akai and Kishibe no arubamu TV series.[2][3][4]

Hara was married to director Akio Jissōji from 1963 to 2006 (his death) and also starred in many of his films.[2] In the 2017 book Heretic Film History: The World of Shintoho, Hara discussed her years at the Shintoho studio with Noriko Kitazawa and others.[5]

Her final film appearance was in Spring 2019 in Nosari no shima,[2] which was released after her death in 2021.[6] She died at the age of 84 on 19 January 2020 in a Tokyo hospital of maxillary cancer.[2]

Selected filmography

Film

Television

  • 1974–2016: Ultra Series
  • 1975–1977: Akai Series
  • 1977: Kishibe no arubamu

References

  1. ^ a b c d "原知佐子". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e "原知佐子さん死去　「赤いシリーズ」「岸辺のアルバム」など出演、８４歳". Hochi (in Japanese). 21 January 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e "のさりの島 (Nosari no shima official site)". Nosarinoshima.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  4. ^ "蘇る！山口百恵「赤いシリーズ」の"衝撃"（3）原知佐子が語る山口百恵の魅力". Asagei Plus (in Japanese). Tokuma Shoten. 8 May 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  5. ^ 映画秘宝編集部（編), ed. (2017). Heretic Film History: The World of Shintoho (in Japanese). Yosensha. ISBN 978-4-8003-1159-7.
  6. ^ "のさりの島". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 September 2023.


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