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Ayako Wakao (若尾 文子, Wakao Ayako, November 8, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress who was one of the country's biggest stars of the 20th century. Wakao began her career contracted to Daiei Studios in 1951 as part of the fifth "New Face" group. She has gone on to appear in over 100 feature films, plus numerous television movies and series. She was a favorite actress of director Yasuzo Masumura, starring in 20 of his films. In addition to her many collaborations with Masumura, she was a favorite of Kon Ichikawa, having starred or co-starred in seven of the director's works. She appeared in Kenji Mizoguchi's A Geisha and Street of Shame. She also appeared in Yasujirō Ozu's Floating Weeds.
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15 January 1957
A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.
22 May 1952
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
24 May 1961
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko.
09 January 1964
A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.
08 October 1960
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
12 August 1958
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay.
15 February 1961
A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo.
18 March 1958
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small inn in the Kyoto suburb of Fushimi.
28 April 1956
Chieko gets married and moves from Kumamoto to Tokyo when her boyfriend Saburo, who works for the Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, is transferred to Tokyo.
19 April 1955
The story follows privileged college students who secretly work part-time at a beauty salon, amidst emotional and social struggles.
04 April 1964
The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.
29 December 1953
Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
06 November 1952
A comedy movie for salaryman.
15 November 1969
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine.
01 April 1958
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.
25 June 1965
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
01 October 1956
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue.
13 January 1963
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
13 May 1959
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company.
08 June 1963
A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman.
09 October 2005
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngsters amongst the aristocracy and rich of early twentieth century Japan.
22 September 1954
Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.
11 March 1959
Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bourgeois Todo family.
24 February 1964
Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband.
03 January 1959
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage.
29 October 1961
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
15 January 1971
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura.
28 June 1961
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie.
15 January 1966
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's.
23 January 1965
Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
19 February 1956
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they have not had.
01 October 1966
In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war.
14 July 1954
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this entertaining tale of love and action.
20 July 1955
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
12 August 1959
In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.
14 October 1961
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures.
29 June 1968
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.
09 June 1967
Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.
28 August 1963
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover.
20 October 1962
Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, flashy dancer with a shady past.
03 October 1964
This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night.
14 January 1960
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy.
21 March 1961
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven.
26 September 1987
Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.
15 January 1970
Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard, scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend.
17 November 1959
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
05 February 1953
Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako
28 July 1974
It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.
14 March 1962
High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him into divorcing his wife, only for their new marriage to be destabilized by the arrival of her young niece.
18 March 1956
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
23 April 1955
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
28 June 1956
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
26 December 1962
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active.
