Tag Archives: Ayako Wakao

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher Read More »

A girl who has escaped from an institution falls in love with Tora-san. Read More »

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across Read More »

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. Read More »

Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, a celebrated writer whose fictions Read More »

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adaptation by Kaneto Shindo, Masumura Yasuzo directs. Read More »

After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate Read More »

Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women’s daily dramas play out. Read More »

Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. Read More »

In the post-war, the sixteen year-old teenager Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion Read More »

Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. Read More »

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Read More »

Kawashima excelled in portraying latent psychological anxieties and their incursion to associations. Read More »

A greedy, materialistic family tries to cover-up that the embezzlement committed by the child when keeping their other strategies busy. Read More »

Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Okane, a beautiful girl from a poor family, must serve as a mistress to a much older rich man. Read More »