Ayako Wakao Filmes

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...

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...

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

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

1958 Japanese movie

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women...

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...

Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.

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

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her...

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...

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve...

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

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...

[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even...

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako