Movies: Ayako Wakao
- 1959
Floating Weeds (1959)
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When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934)....
- 1956
Street of Shame (1956)
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The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law....
- 1970
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
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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 merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking ...
- 1963
An Actor's Revenge (1963)
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In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago....
- 1966
Red Angel (1966)
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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. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some o...
- 1966
Irezumi (1966)
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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 the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist who sees her pristine white skin as the perfect ca...
- 1953
A Geisha (1953)
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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 men....
- 1964
Manji (1964)
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The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture....
- 1961
A Wife Confesses (1961)
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Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession....
- 1987
Princess from the Moon (1987)
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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....
- 1965
Seisaku's Wife (1965)
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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 poverty....
- 1957
The Blue Sky Maiden (1957)
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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 is not who she thought she was....
- 1962
Elegant Beast (1962)
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A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved....
- 1975
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
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In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the life and career of his friend and mentor Mizoguchi....
- 1963
Bamboo Doll of Echizen (1963)
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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....
- 1962
The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)
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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 lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the pr...
- 1961
A Geisha's Diary (1961)
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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 a woman but as a complete person....
- 1960
Afraid to Die (1960)
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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 his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than plan...
- 1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958)
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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 of a merciless revenge....
- 1964
Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege (1964)
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[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 complete -- the destruction of the Toyotomi clan, now beseiged in Osaka castle. Ieyasu's ninja are the only ...