Ayako Wakao Movies

A coming-of-age film.

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...

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

A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

A young man who is ostracized by society because his older brother has a criminal record—a situation that even threatens his marriage—is...

This story depicts the struggles of a man living in the cutthroat world of competition and the pure love of his wife.

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have...

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...

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted...

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

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...

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her...

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...

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...

After helping a woman recover her wallet, which had been stolen by a pickpocket, a rough-around-the-edges young man who is a sixth-dan judo...

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...