Ayako Wakao Movies

A love melodrama about five siblings and the daughter of a businessman.

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 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...

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...

Chieko Izumi is a reporter for the magazine "Weekly Japanese Women". She had come to Tokyo to stay with her aunt in order to escape her stubborn...

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

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

A mysterious magician with a Japanese mother who came to Nagasaki’s Nankin-machi from the mainland in search of his father’s killer.

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

At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, she meets a...

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

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