Ayako Wakao Movies

[Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is...

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as...

The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.

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

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

It depicts the emotional ups and downs of a designer who runs a clothing store and her husband over the course of a summer.

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

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...