Akiko Wakabayashi Movies

Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

1962 Japanese movie

Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa.

Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to leave the world of the yakuza and live with his...

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they...

A private detective and a colleague investigate a man for a wealthy young lady.

1962 Japanese movie

Comedy about a Japanese-American professor, a nuclear scientist, who returns to Japan to search for a typically subservient Japanese wife.

A rebellious heiress clashes with gangsters, dodges an arranged marriage, and unexpectedly falls for a principled lawyer as her father confronts past...

1962 Japanese movie

1963 Japanese movie

In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to...

A newlywed couple moves into an apartment complex where each family faces everyday problems.

A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arrives, sending them on a whirlwind quest for...

A young detective tries to determine whether a mysterious death was the result of murder or self-defense.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Unusual race relations melodrama from West Germany follows a German sailor who meets and weds a Chinese woman while on leave in Hong Kong, only to...

The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be...

Episodic, globe-trotting quasi-mondo focused on women of the East.