Ayako Wakao Movies

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

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve...

Chieko Izumi is a reporter for the magazine "Weekly Japanese Women". She had come to Tokyo to stay with her aunt in order to escape her stubborn...

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...

A coming-of-age film.

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 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...

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

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

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding...

[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even...

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Keita, who had been taken along as a cover for his father-in-law’s affair, was discovered by his new wife when she unexpectedly showed up while...

An entertainment film set in a movie studio, featuring songs and hidden talents performed by male and female stars.