[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.

[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.

[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.