
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 »
Tag Archives: Ayako Wakao
Women Are Born Twice AKA Onna wa nido umareru (1961) Yûzô Kawashima, Ayako Wakao, Sô Yamamura, Jun Fujimaki

Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. Read More »
A Geisha (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi, Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu

In the post-war, the sixteen year-old teenager Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion Read More »
A Wife Confesses (1961) Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Read More »
The Temple of the Wild Geese (1962) Yûzô Kawashima, Ayako Wakao, Masao Mishima, Isao Kimura, Drama, Romance

Kawashima excelled in portraying latent psychological anxieties and their incursion to associations. Read More »
The Graceful Brute (1962) Yûzô Kawashima, Ayako Wakao, Yûnosuke Itô, Hisano Yamaoka, Comedy, Drama

A greedy, materialistic family tries to cover-up that the embezzlement committed by the child when keeping their other strategies busy. Read More »
Seisakus Wife (1965) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Takahiro Tamura, Nobuo Chiba, Drama, Romance, War

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 »
Manji / Swastika (1964) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi, Drama, Romance

Sonoko, a bored housewife entering middle age, met a young girl, Mitsuko, at a private school of art. Read More »
Koshoku ichidai otoko / A Lustful Man (1961) Yasuzô Masumura, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Tamao Nakamura, Comedy, Drama

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. Read More »
Nise daigakusei / A False Student (1960) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Jerry Fujio, Jun Fujimaki, Comedy, Drama

Nise Daigakusei is an odd, straightforward youth drama by Yasuzo Masamura, set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students. Read More »