Ayako Wakao Movies

Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two...

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve...

A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.

A factory town along the Sumida River. Jun Aoki and Miyo Murakoshi, who work at this factory, love music, with Jun playing the cello and Miyo the...

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

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.

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...

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late father.

At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, she meets a...

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon...

The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have...

A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.

Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.