Ayako Wakao
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ayako Wakao, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
An Actor's Revenge
as NamijiIn Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their...
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Floating Weeds
as KayoWhen a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of...
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A Geisha
as EikoEiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive...
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A Wife Confesses
as Ayako TakigawaTied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the...
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Street of Shame
as YasumiThe lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the...
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
as UmenoWith a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit,...
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Manji
as Mitsuko TokumitsuThe four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
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Princess from the Moon
as TayoshimeTwo poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they...
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Irezumi
as OtsuyaOtsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her...
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Red Angel
as Nurse Sakura NishiIn 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during...
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Elegant Beast
as Yukie Mitani, the agent's accountantA greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while...
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Two Wives
as uncreditedAfter a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a...
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Spring Snow
as uncreditedBased on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows...
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A Woman's Testament
as uncreditedThe first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for...
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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
as Yodogimi[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja...
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The Saga of Tanegashima
as WakasaWell before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
as Satoko KiriharaSatoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan...
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Afraid to Die
as Yoshie KoizumiOn his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on...
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The Most Valuable Wife
as Kyoko NonomiyaIn the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Orin, Carpenter's DaughterJapan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for...
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Punishment Room
as Akiko AochiShimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his...
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Tears
as uncreditedA young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
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Seisaku's Wife
as OkaneOn the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane...
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The Blue Sky Maiden
as Yûko OnoYuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family...
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A Geisha's Diary
as KoenA young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she...
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Stolen Pleasure
as MasukoBased on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo,...
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The Great Wall
as Chiang-nuIn 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his...
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A Night to Remember
as uncreditedSeventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as uncreditedIn 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed...
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
as TamaeBased on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker...
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Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
as Yodogimi[Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the...
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
as YūkoTorajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his...
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滝の白糸
as uncreditedThe middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the...
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The Freezing Point
as NatsueKeizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was...
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Suparuta Kyouiku Kutabare Oyaji
as uncreditedIn a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara,...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
as KaeThe disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic,...
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
as SatsukoUtsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke,...
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The Phantom Horse
as Yuki ShiraishiFollowing the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in...
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A Lustful Man
as YuugiridayuuFascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of...
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A Grain of Wheat
as Numata IchikoThe film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head...
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The Time of Reckoning
as uncredited"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful...
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Yuri MamiyaDuring the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing...
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The House of Wooden Blocks
as uncreditedOn his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie....
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The Cast-Off
as uncreditedThe inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high...
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浅草の夜
as Namie TakashimaA young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a...
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Tokyo Eyes
as uncreditedA beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young...
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Blood End
as OtsutaSentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a...
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The Ladder of Success
as uncreditedA biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao...
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The Third Will
as Fumino HamadaA story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives,...
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The Story of a Blind Woman
as uncreditedAt sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage...
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Daiei Studio is Bustling
as uncreditedA studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.
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Izakaya Moheji 2
as Kihara Shino [New customer]A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for...
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Nami kage
as HinachiyoAyako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
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The Virgin Witness
as Chiei, NunA father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere...
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The Priest and the Beauty
as KiyohimePrincess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but...
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Modae
as uncreditedThis unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his...
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Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree
as uncreditedYano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes...
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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
as Yumiko KiryûA Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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A Public Benefactor
as Mitsuko FukumuraThe intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.
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The Messenger from the Moon
as Yoko KotaniAdaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.
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Love and Greed
as Namiko KawashiroNamiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her...
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One Day at Summer's End
as Mariko NozakiA Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two...
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A Rainbow at Every Turn
as uncreditedMomoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also...
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The Ginza Three Boys
as Chikami AkiyamaThe story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving...
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Shi no machi wo nogarete
as Setsuko MinamiGroup of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
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Shroud of Snow
as Taeko Sayama1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains...
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Izakaya Moheji 4
as Kihara Shino [New customer]A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for...
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Jirocho Fuji
as OkikuLegendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire...
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Bridge of Japan
as OchiseIchikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until...
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The Radiant Prince
as Aoi no ueHikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of...
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Enchanted Princess
as Princess Kinuta / OkuroOnce upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken...
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Strange Triangle
as uncreditedA young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his...
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The Tale of Genji
as uncreditedTV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life...
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Bonchi
as PontaKikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal....
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Triangle Moods
as Mariko NaoeAyako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved...
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Thousand Cranes
as Mrs. OtaThe entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his...
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Love of the Princess
as KazunomiyaA story of aristocratic star-crossed love.
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Beauty the Enemy
as Keiko YoshinoIn a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are...
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Victory and Defeat
as Shizuko AbeAfter the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura),...
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The Forest of No Escape
as uncreditedAdaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
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The False Student
as Mutsuko TakagiA youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
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A Design for Dying
as uncreditedShikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils...
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Marriageable Age
as uncreditedYoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and...
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Vagabonds from Badgerville
as TayoriA musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
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Firefly Light
as OryoSet in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose...
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Zoku jūdai no seiten
as uncreditedFilm directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
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I'll Cry Alone
as uncredited"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the...
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Les Mesdemoiselles
as Kasumi FujisawaA romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles...
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Hot Spring Doctress
as Isao ShiozukiA light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.
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Jūdai no yūwaku
as uncreditedFilm directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
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Their Legacy
as uncreditedHeitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four...
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The Judo Champ
as uncreditedWhen Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall...
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Jûdai no seiten
as uncreditedFilm directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako
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Onna no Katei
as uncreditedThe drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with...
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Onna no Kyūka
as uncreditedIt depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.
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Wild Geese
as OtamaOtama, daughter of a poor candy vendor, becomes the mistress of a man whom she believes to be a...
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続々十代の性典
as uncreditedFilm directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
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SMAP×SMAP
as Bistro GuestSMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the...
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Ohisama
as Yoko Sudo (present day)Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot. Set...
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Tokugawa Yoshinobu
as Yoshiko TokugawaThe 37th NHK Taiga Drama is Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The series focuses on the life of Tokugawa...
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Takeda Shingen
as uncreditedThere was a very turbulent time in the warring period in the history, and Takeda Shingen is...
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Takeda Shingen
as Oi FujinThere was a very turbulent time in the warring period in the history, and Takeda Shingen is...
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Shin Heike Monogatari
as Tokiwa GozenSet at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era...
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