, better known under the stage name , was a Japanese actress best known for starring in ''Akai Giwaku'', ''Kishibe no Album'', and the ''

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Biography

Chisako Hara was born on 6 January 1936Profile
at Gendai Seisakusha in Takaoka Town (now

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(in Japanese) During the 1970s, she became famous for her intense role in ''Akai Series''. In the 2017 book "The Movie History of the Heretic New Toho", Hara discussed her membership in New Toho with

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and others. She was the wife of ''Ultraman'' director

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. Hara died at the age of 84 on 19 January 2020 in a

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hospital due to

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. Her first-born daughter, actress , is set to be the chief mourner at her funeral.女優の原知佐子さん死去
(in Japanese)

Selected filmography

Television

*''Akai Series'' *''Alibi no kanata e'' *''Drama D Mode'' *''Furinryokō no wana'' *''Hanamura Daisuke'' *''Hinata Bokko'' *''Itsuwari no Hanazono'' *''Jakō'' *''Jukeisha Shissō'' *''Kenji Kasumi Yūko'' *''Kishibe no Album'' *''Kyūkyūkyūmei Center'' *''Let's Go Onsen'' *''Michidzure'' *''Pretty Girl'' *''Pu Pu Pu'' *''Rinshō Shinrishi'' *''Uranaishi Suzuko''

Film

*''Asakiyunumishi'' *''

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'' *''Fudōfukutsu'' *'' Girl of Dark'' *''Gishiki *''Haruurara'' *''

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'' *''

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'' *''Tokyo Tower'' *''Tsuribaka Nikki'' *'' Wait and See''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hara, Chisako 1936 births 2020 deaths Japanese film actresses Japanese television actresses 20th-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese actresses People from Tosa, Kōchi