Ayako Wakao

Filmography

Ayako Wakao - filmography

Princess From The Moon on DVD (1987)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Yasuko Sawaguchi
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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When a mysterious light appears in the sky a poor couple investigate and find a small pod near the grave of their daughter. The pod breaks open to reveal a small baby who looks very much like their daughter. They decide to adopt her and she grows up to be a young lady of exceptional beauty who is ..read more »

48% from 195 members

Irezumi on DVD (1966)
Starring: Ayako Wakao, Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto
Director: Yasuzo Masumura
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When a young girl is seduced and has a spider tattooed on her back; she herself becomes a predatory monster, taking revenge on every man who has shared her bed.

59% from 242 members

Red Angel on DVD (1966)
Starring: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yusuke Kawazu
Director: Yasuzo Masumura
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Set against the Sino-Japanese war of 1939, a young angelic military nurse is raped by her patients and sent to the front line for daring to register a complaint. Posted to a rag-tag demoralised unti, she falls in love with an impotent morphine-addicted surgeon. Together the pair seek solace in each ..read more »

53% from 754 members

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo on DVD (1965)
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Toshiro Mifune, Ayako Wakao
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
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A blind man returns to a village, of which he was once very fond. Upon his return however, he finds that things have changed considerably. There are two factions vying for power and people are getting killed... Japanese dialogue.

62% from 708 members

Manji on DVD (1964)
Starring: Ayako Wakao, Kyoko Kishida, Yusuke Kawazu
Director: Yasuzo Masumura, Yasuko Masumura
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Acclaimed Japanese New Wave director Yasuzo Masumura takes on the intricacies of love in his acclaimed film MANJI. When a dissatisfied, bored wife meets a mysterious, sexy woman in an art class, the two embark on a passionate affair. Soon, the unhappy wife's husband and her new girlfriend's ..read more »

53% from 135 members

An Actor's Revenge on DVD (1962)
Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Perhaps director Kon Ichikawa's most stylistically inventive film, AN ACTOR'S REVENGE was adapted from a newspaper serial written by Otokichi Mikami and stars Kazuo Hasegawa as Yukinojo Nakamura, a celebrated "oyama," or female impersonator, working with the Ichimura kabuki troupe in 1836 Edo. ..read more »

67% from 832 members

Floating Weeds on DVD (1959)
Starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo, Ayako Wakao
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
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This 1959 Ozu production centers on the likable but fallible leader of an itinerant acting troupe (floating weeds being the Japanese name for such groups), Kimajuro, played brilliantly by Ganjiro Nakamura. The film opens on a lazy, stagnant river as the troupe lays spread about on a boat deck ..read more »

69% from 1,091 member

Sansho Dayu on DVD (1954)
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Michiyo Kogure, Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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'Sansho Dayu'follows an aristocratic woman, Tamaki (Tanaka Kinuyo) and her two children, Zushio (Hanayagi Yoshiaki) and Anju (Kagawa Kyoko), who are parted from Tamaki's husband when he finds himself in trouble with the feudal powers for treating peasants with kindness. When the children are ..read more »

78% from 200 members

Gion Bayashi on DVD (1953)
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Michiyo Kogure, Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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'Gion Bayashi' (1953) is a drama set in the world of the courtesan. Eiko (Wakao Ayako) is a 16-year old orphan, while Miyoharu (Kogure Michiyo) is the geisha who agrees to be her mentor.

76% from 121 members

Sansho Dayu & Gion Bayashi (2 discs) on DVD (1953)
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Michiyo Kogure, Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Based on an ancient legend, as recounted by celebrated author Mori Ogai (in his short story of the same name, written in 1915), and adapted by Japanese director Mizoguchi Kenji, Sansho Dayu is both distinctively Japanese and as deeply affecting as a Greek tragedy. Described in its opening title as "..read more »

78% from 397 members

Princess From The Moon - 2.5 stars
Irezumi - 3.0 stars
Red Angel - 2.5 stars
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo - 3.0 stars
Manji - 2.5 stars

Sansho Dayu & Gion Bayashi - 4.0 stars
Sansho Dayu - 4.0 stars
Gion Bayashi - 4.0 stars
Floating Weeds - 3.5 stars
An Actor's Revenge - 3.5 stars

Princess From The Moon - 2.5 stars
Red Angel - 2.5 stars
Manji - 2.5 stars
Irezumi - 3.0 stars
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo - 3.0 stars

Yoshiaki Hanayagi - 3 times - show films
Michiyo Kogure - 3 times - show films
Kinuyo Tanaka - 3 times - show films
Yusuke Kawazu - 2 times - show films
Toshiro Mifune - 2 times - show films

Kenji Mizoguchi - 3 times - show films
Yasuzo Masumura - 3 times - show films
Kon Ichikawa - 2 times - show films
Kihachi Okamoto - 1 times - show films
Yasujiro Ozu - 1 times - show films