| Birth Name: | Chisako Tahara |
| Birth Date: | 1 June 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Takaoka Town (now Tosa), Kōchi Prefecture, Japan |
| Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Years Active: | 1956–2019 |
| Spouse: | Akio Jissōji (1963–2006) |
[1] was a Japanese actress best known for starring in the Akai and the Kishibe no arubamu series.[2] [3]
Chisako Hara was born Chisako Tahara (田原知佐子, Tahara Chisako) on 6 January 1936 in Takaoka Town (now Tosa), Kōchi Prefecture. She gave her film debut at the Shintoho studios in 1956, but later moved to Toho, 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. In the early 1960s, she became a freelancer and also started appearing on television. During the 1970s, she became famous for her roles in the Akai and Kishibe no arubamu TV series.[4]
Hara was married to director Akio Jissōji from 1963 to 2006 (his death) and also starred in many of his films. 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, 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.