Legendary actress Setsuko Hara, who starred in "Tokyo Story" and other films by Yasujiro Ozu and other prominent Japanese directors, has died.

On Wednesday her family announced Hara's death due to pneumonia at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture on Sept. 5. She was 95.

Hara had been hospitalized since mid-August and her death was not immediately made public in observance of her wishes, according to a close relative.