Ayako Wakao
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Ayako Wakao (若尾 文子, Wakao Ayako, November 8, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress who was one of the country's biggest stars of the 20th century. Wakao began her career contracted to Daiei Studios in 1951 as part of the fifth "New Face" group. She has gone on to appear in over 100 feature films, plus numerous television movies and series. She was a favorite actress of director Yasuzo Masumura, starring in 20 of his films. In addition to her many collaborations with Masumura, she was a favorite of Kon Ichikawa, having starred or co-starred in seven of the director's works. She appeared in Kenji Mizoguchi's A Geisha and Street of Shame. She also appeared in Yasujirō Ozu's Floating Weeds.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 16.164 |
| Birthday | 1933-11-08 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Аяко Вакао, |
1958
Musume no boken
0/0
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Musume no boken
1963
An Actor's Revenge
6.5/62
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
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An Actor's Revenge
1966
Irezumi
7/51
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts th...
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Irezumi
1970
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
6.7/63
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merch...
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
1956
Street of Shame
7.7/132
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
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Street of Shame
1960
Victory and Defeat
0/0
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in t...
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Victory and Defeat
1962
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
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Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
1983
Meiso chizu
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Meiso chizu
1960
Afraid to Die
6/10
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of hi...
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Afraid to Die
1953
A Geisha
7.5/51
Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain me...
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A Geisha
1959
Floating Weeds
7.5/183
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...
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Floating Weeds
1964
Manji
6.5/38
The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
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Manji
1962
The Great Wall
6/2
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted au...
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The Great Wall
1987
Princess from the Moon
6.438/24
Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.
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Princess from the Moon
1966
Red Angel
7.6/56
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 Dr...
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Red Angel
1961
A Lustful Man
5.9/7
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pu...
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A Lustful Man
1969
Blood End
6.2/5
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a lea...
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Blood End
1962
Elegant Beast
7.1/15
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover ther...
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Elegant Beast
1961
A Wife Confesses
6.7/29
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession...
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A Wife Confesses
1965
Seisaku's Wife
7.3/22
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of po...
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Seisaku's Wife
1967
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
6.9/8
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 t...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1964
Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
6.2/9
[Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be t...
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Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
1991
The Tale of Genji
0/0
TV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life of Prince Hikaru Genji, who was nicknamed "Shining" by...
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The Tale of Genji
1963
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
7.1/8
[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), as he was about to be...
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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
1955
The Phantom Horse
6/1
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
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The Phantom Horse
1971
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
7.2/4
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his s...
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1957
Evening Calm
0/0
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
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Evening Calm
1958
The Ladder of Success
0/0
A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way to...
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The Ladder of Success
1959
Jirocho Fuji
6.8/4
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.
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Jirocho Fuji
1957
The Betrothed
0/0
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
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The Betrothed
1959
Enchanted Princess
6.2/4
Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as parasol...
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Enchanted Princess
1971
幻の殺意
0/0
Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.
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幻の殺意
1967
Shroud of Snow
8/1
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.
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Shroud of Snow
1956
A Rainbow at Every Turn
0/0
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they ha...
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A Rainbow at Every Turn
1960
The Priest and the Beauty
3/3
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her in spi...
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The Priest and the Beauty
1960
The False Student
6.5/6
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
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The False Student
1964
Love and Greed
6.5/2
Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.
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Love and Greed
1957
The Blue Sky Maiden
6.8/21
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...
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The Blue Sky Maiden
1956
滝の白糸
0/0
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, thou...
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滝の白糸
2005
Spring Snow
4/2
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngster...
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Spring Snow
1956
Bridge of Japan
7.3/3
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—a...
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Bridge of Japan
1954
浅草の夜
0/0
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...
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浅草の夜
1964
A Public Benefactor
0/0
The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.
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A Public Benefactor
1965
While Yet a Wife
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While Yet a Wife
1956
Punishment Room
6.9/6
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
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Punishment Room
1954
A Certain Woman
0/0
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A Certain Woman
1970
Suparuta Kyouiku Kutabare Oyaji
0/0
In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge, knocke...
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Suparuta Kyouiku Kutabare Oyaji
1952
Shi no machi wo nogarete
0/0
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
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Shi no machi wo nogarete
1967
Two Wives
7.4/5
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexu...
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Two Wives
1968
The House of Wooden Blocks
0/0
On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he decides to outdo his father in terms of im...
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The House of Wooden Blocks
1962
Stolen Pleasure
6.8/4
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women fo...
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Stolen Pleasure
1962
The Temple of Wild Geese
6.3/11
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 lasciv...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
1967
When the Cookie Crumbles
6/1
Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.
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When the Cookie Crumbles
1962
A Night to Remember
6/1
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotte...
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A Night to Remember
1958
A Grain of Wheat
0/0
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 wat...
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A Grain of Wheat
1974
Onna no Kyūka
0/0
It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.
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Onna no Kyūka
1958
Firefly Light
0/0
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 i...
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Firefly Light
1968
The Time of Reckoning
7/1
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving...
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The Time of Reckoning
1975
Onna no Natsu
0/0
It depicts the emotional ups and downs of a designer who runs a clothing store and her husband over the course of a summer.
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Onna no Natsu
1959
Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree
8/1
Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bour...
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Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree
2013
Izakaya Moheji 2
0/0
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The pro...
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Izakaya Moheji 2
2015
Izakaya Moheji 4
0/0
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The pro...
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Izakaya Moheji 4
1977
Onna no Katei
0/0
The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.
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Onna no Katei
1962
Diary of a Mad Old Man
6.5/2
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 r...
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
1963
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
7.6/11
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1964
Modae
0/0
This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who sp...
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Modae
1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin
6/9
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
1965
The Forest of No Escape
0/0
Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
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The Forest of No Escape
1960
Bonchi
7/2
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give t...
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Bonchi
1955
Farewell Song
0/0
A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.
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Farewell Song
1960
A Woman's Testament
5.8/6
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the s...
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A Woman's Testament
1966
The Freezing Point
6.8/5
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her extramarital...
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The Freezing Point
1969
Thousand Cranes
9/1
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life.
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Thousand Cranes
1968
The Saga of Tanegashima
5/3
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped...
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The Saga of Tanegashima
1961
A Geisha's Diary
7.2/10
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as...
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A Geisha's Diary
1975
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
6.8/12
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the life...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1957
Love of the Princess
0/0
A story of aristocratic star-crossed love.
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Love of the Princess
1954
The Messenger from the Moon
0/0
Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.
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The Messenger from the Moon
1966
The Virgin Witness
0/0
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline...
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The Virgin Witness
1961
The Radiant Prince
0/0
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further ro...
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The Radiant Prince
1961
Vagabonds from Badgerville
7/1
A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
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Vagabonds from Badgerville
1961
Marriageable Age
0/0
Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...
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Marriageable Age
1959
Goodbye, Hello
6/1
Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa
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Goodbye, Hello
1963
Girls Born in August
0/0
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Girls Born in August
1961
The Ginza Three Boys
0/0
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 met...
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The Ginza Three Boys
1961
Triangle Moods
0/0
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 Goro, bus...
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Triangle Moods
1953
Lady Chatterley of Japan
0/0
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Lady Chatterley of Japan
1968
One Day at Summer's End
0/0
A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.
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One Day at Summer's End
1960
The Rockabilly Lady
0/0
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The Rockabilly Lady
1963
Bury Me Deep
6/1
A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman.
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Bury Me Deep
1963
She Came For Love
0/0
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a sec...
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She Came For Love
1961
Les Mesdemoiselles
6/1
A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the...
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Les Mesdemoiselles
1959
Beauty the Enemy
0/0
In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.
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Beauty the Enemy
1964
Hot Spring Doctress
0/0
A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.
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Hot Spring Doctress
1962
Closing Time
0/0
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Closing Time
1962
Red Love, Green Love
0/0
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Red Love, Green Love
1952
母子鶴
0/0
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母子鶴
1959
The Most Valuable Wife
7.5/4
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The Most Valuable Wife
1962
Their Legacy
0/0
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement...
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Their Legacy
1965
Strange Triangle
6/1
A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is...
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Strange Triangle
1956
Tears
0/0
A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
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Tears
1963
The Third Will
8/2
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father
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The Third Will
1961
A Design for Dying
6/1
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shre...
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A Design for Dying
1966
Wild Geese
5/1
Otama, daughter of a poor candy vendor, becomes the mistress of a man whom she believes to be a widower and owner of a prosperous dry goods store. The...
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Wild Geese
1959
The Cast-Off
6/0
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his w...
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The Cast-Off
1953
Zoku jūdai no seiten
0/0
Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
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Zoku jūdai no seiten
1953
続々十代の性典
0/0
Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
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続々十代の性典
1953
Jûdai no seiten
0/0
Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako
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Jûdai no seiten
1953
Jūdai no yūwaku
0/0
Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
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Jūdai no yūwaku
1955
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
0/0
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
1965
Nami kage
0/0
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
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Nami kage
1956
Tsukigata Hanpeita
7/1
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
1959
The Gaijin
0/0
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The Gaijin
1964
The Frolic of the Beasts
0/0
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, w...
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The Frolic of the Beasts
1965
The Story of a Blind Woman
5/1
At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, he meets a bus...
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The Story of a Blind Woman
1959
Ripe and Marriageable
0/0
1959 youth comedy.
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Ripe and Marriageable
1958
Tokyo Eyes
0/0
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...
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Tokyo Eyes
1958
Love River
0/0
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Love River
1958
Mother
0/0
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Mother
1958
The Judo Champ
0/0
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his br...
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The Judo Champ
1957
Daiei Studio is Bustling
0/0
A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.
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Daiei Studio is Bustling
1985
Tokimeki no Gogo
0/0
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...
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Tokimeki no Gogo
1966
Shojo jutai
0/0
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Shojo jutai
1965
I'll Cry Alone
0/0
"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 re-ma...
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