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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
03 January 1962
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry.
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.
15 January 1966
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's.
28 July 1974
It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.
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.
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.
22 March 1960
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan.
28 October 1967
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and s
28 July 1961
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
18 March 1956
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
12 August 1953
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha.
13 January 1963
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
11 February 1959
Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family.
31 March 1963
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father.
31 July 1965
A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however.
14 September 1958
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them.
12 August 1970
In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge, knocked the referee down.
25 July 1964
The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
17 November 1959
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
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.
15 October 1958
A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way to the top.
10 July 1964
[Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete -- the destruction of the Toyotomi clan, now beseiged in Osaka castle.
