Ayako Wakao

All Movies of Ayako Wakao

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  Snowy Love Fall in Spring
   2005

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  5.0
  Princess from the Moon
  Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the original tale, though, in which the girl was a fairy from the mo...
   1987

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  7.8
  Red Angel
  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 Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she give...
  Character: Nurse Sakura Nishi

   1966

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  Tatouage
  Character: Otsuya

   1966

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  7.0
  All Mixed Up
  A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.
   1964

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  With My Husband's Consent
   1964

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  The tycoon
   1964

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  An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo's Revenge)
  In 1836, in Tokugawa Japan, Yukinojo (Kazuo Hasegawa), a Kabuki actor specializing in female roles, arrives with his troupe in Edo. There he sets in motion a complex plot designed first to ruin and then to kill three men who had t...
   1963

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  8.2
  Bamboo Doll of Echizen
  Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, a celebrated writer whose fictions also furnished plots for directors from Tadashi Imai to Masahiro Shinoda, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's pro...
   1963

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  Shin Genji monogatari
   1961

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  A Woman's Testament
  A Film in Three Parts. The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an un...
   1960

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  Beauty Is Guilty
  In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.
   1959

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  7.7
  Floating Weeds
  Komajuro (Ganjiro Nakamura) leads a traveling acting troupe that performs cut-rate kabuki in the provinces. His mistress, Sumiko, is loyal to him, as are the other veteran actors. The troupe arrive to a town on the seaside. Komaju...
  Character: Kayo

   1959

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  7.8
  Street of Shame
  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. Each has dreams and motivations. Hanae is married, her husband unemployed; they hav...
  Character: Yasumi

   1956

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  Hotaru no hikari
   1955

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  8.0
  A Geisha (Gion bayashi)
  In the post-war Gion district of Kyoto, the geisha Miyoharu agrees to apprentice the 16 year-old Eiko, whose mother was a former geisha who had just died. After a year of training they have to find a large sum of money before Eiko...
   1953