Ayako Wakao Movies

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...

A woman's desperate attempt to prove her husband's innocence after he has been sentenced to death for the murder of his mistress. She tracks down...

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

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

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

Judo movie.

A young engineer and a pure-hearted mountain girl take on the challenges of the Akan primeval forest, where lawlessness and violence run rampant.

A young judo athlete ends up working as a cabaret bouncer.

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

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

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...