Ayako Wakao Movies

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is...

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

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...

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her...

Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa

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...

The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart. Koji Umeya,...

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

1959 youth comedy.

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems...

"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to...

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.