Best movies of Ayako Wakao

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?

Actors : Fujiko Yamamoto, Kazuo Hasegawa, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.

Actors : Shinsuke Ashida, Ranko Akagi, Yûsuke Kawazu, Ayako Wakao,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.

Actors : Kyôko Kishida, Yûsuke Kawazu, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.

Actors : Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Kei Satô,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

A seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.

Actors : Ayako Wakao, Yukio Mishima, Eiji Funakoshi, Keizô Kawasaki,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

Takeo is a young yakuza who renounces his former criminal activities after being released from prison. But sometimes escaping the past is not so easy.

Actors : Nobuo Chiba, Yûzô Hayakawa, Takahiro Tamura, Ayako Wakao,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

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.

Actors : Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Mabuchi, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial.

Actors : Saburô Date, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Chikako Hosokawa,
Directors : Kazuo Mori,

Actors : Hideko Takamine, Yûnosuke Itô, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal ...

Actors : Yasuko Sawaguchi, Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the original tale, though, ...

Actors : Sô Yamamura, Chieko Higashiyama, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki,
Directors : Keigo Kimura,

Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. He discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido ...

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Ganjirô Nakamura, Ayako Wakao, Junichiro Yamashita,
Directors : Kôzaburô Yoshimura,

Haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

Actors : Masaya Takahashi, Masahiko Naruse, Ayako Wakao, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Sôkichi Tomimoto,

A woman's desperate attempt to prove her husband's innocence after he has been sentenced to death for the murder of his mistress. She tracks down four men in the victim's life, one of whom ...