Ayako Wakao Movies

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...

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

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

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

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

1958 Japanese movie

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

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...

Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

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