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Tag Archives: Ayako Wakao
The Husband Witnessed (1964) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Jirô Tamiya, Keizô Kawasaki

Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. Read More »
Red Angel (1966) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yûsuke Kawazu

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. Read More »
Shinobi No Mono 3: Resurrection / Shin shinobi no mono (1963) Kazuo Mori, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Eijirô Tôno

When we last saw the intrepid ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), he was about to be boiled alive. Read More »
Thousand Cranes / Senba zuru (1969) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Machiko Kyô, Mikijirô Hira

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher Read More »
Tora-san 6 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Junjô hen (1971) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Ayako Wakao, Chieko Baishô

A girl who has escaped from an institution falls in love with Tora-san. Read More »
An Actor’s Revenge / Yukinojô henge (1963) Kon Ichikawa, Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across Read More »
Diary of a Mad Old Man / Fûten Rôjin nikki (1962) Keigo Kimura, Sô Yamamura, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki

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 »
Bamboo Doll of Echizen / Echizen take-ningyo (1963) Kôzaburô Yoshimura, Ayako Wakao, Junichiro Yamashita, Tamao Nakamura

Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, a celebrated writer whose fictions Read More »
Two Wives / Tsuma futari (1967) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Mariko Okada, Kôji Takahashi

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