Ayako Wakao Movies

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

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

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

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

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...

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...

A comedy movie for salaryman.

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord...

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

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...

1959 youth comedy.

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...

Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.

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

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

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