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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.

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...

A romantic story about a young medical student and a Japanese dancer who meet while watching a university ice hockey league game, and how they...

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

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...

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...

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still...