Ayako Wakao — Actor (36)
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Two Wives (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
妻二人
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Ayako Wakao / Mariko Okada …
other title: Deux épouses / Two wives …
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax...
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A Geisha's Diary (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
女は二度生まれる
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Ayako Wakao / Jun Fujimaki …
other title: Les femmes naissent deux fois / Onna wa nido umareru …
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
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Enchanted Princess (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
初春狸御殿
director: Keigo Kimura actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Ayako Wakao …
other title: 初春狸御殿 / Romance in the Land of Dreams
Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as parasols, they were wrongly brought to the Racoon Palace, where the young racoon princess (also Ayako Wakao) made a mess of her arranged marriage with the beautiful racoon prince (Raizô Ichikawa). Pretty princess ran away. In order not to spoil the promising marriage, people tried to make use of resemblances between Okuro and the princess. Before long, Okuro and the Prince fell in love with each other...
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A Lustful Man (1961) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB
好色一代男
director: 增村保造 actor: 市川雷藏 / 若尾文子 …
other title: 好色一代男 / 西鹤一代男 …
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.
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The Radiant Prince (1961) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
新源氏物語
director: 森一生 actor: 市川雷蔵 / 寿美花代 …
other title: 新源氏物语 / 新源氏物語 …
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures. Young Genji, the emperor’s illegitimate son cuts a swath through the women of the imperial court, while still mourning the spirit of his late mother who died while he was still a child. Driven to an obsession with the emperor’s new concubine, Lady Fujitsubo, whose resemblance to his late mother originally caught the eye of the emperor, young Genji embarks upon a reckless affair with her that could cost him his life.
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The Third Will (1963) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
女系家族
director: 三隅研次 actor: 若尾文子 / 京町子 …
other title: Nyokei kazoku / 女系家族
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father.
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Jokyo (1960) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB
女経
director: 增村保造 / 市川昆 … actor: 若尾文子 / 山本富士子 …
other title: 女経 / 女经 …
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 unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
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A Design for Dying (1961) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
女の勲章
director: 吉村公三郎 actor: 京町子 / 若尾文子
other title: Onna no kunshô / 女の勲章 …
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.
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The Most Valuable Wife (1959) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
最高殊勲夫人
director: 增村保造 actor: 若尾文子 / 川口浩 …
other title: 最高殊勋夫人 / 最高殊勲夫人 …
Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...