Ayako Wakao Movies

A story of aristocratic star-crossed love.

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

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

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

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...

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 father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of...

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women...

It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.

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...

Through the relationship between a woman who has lost her husband and her brother-in-law who proposes to her, the complexity of the female psyche and...

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

Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.

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...

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...

The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall,...