Ayako Wakao Movies

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined t...

[Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be t...

TV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life of Prince Hikaru Genji, who was nicknamed "Shining" by...

[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa),as he was about to be...

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

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his s...

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

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 to...

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao),a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as parasol...

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they ha...

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

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

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...

Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.

The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall, thou...

Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngster...