Ayako Wakao Movies

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

TV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life of Prince Hikaru Genji, who was nicknamed "Shining"...

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

From a novel by Mishima Yukio

The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall,...

At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, he meets a...

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.

Otama, daughter of a poor candy vendor, becomes the mistress of a man whom she believes to be a widower and owner of a prosperous dry goods store....

"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to...

It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.

The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.

1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.

Through the relationship between a woman who has lost her husband and her brother-in-law who proposes to her, the complexity of the female psyche and...

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...