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Ayako Wakao
Born: 8th Nov 1933 Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Dept: Acting
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Ayako Wakao (若尾 文子, Wakao Ayako, November 8, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress who was one of the country's biggest stars of the 20th century. Wakao began her career contracted to Daiei Studios in 1951 as part of the fifth "New Face" group. She has gone on to appear in over 100 feature films, plus numerous television movies and series. She was a favorite actress of director Yasuzo Masumura, starring in 20 of his films. In addition to her many collaborations with Masumura, she was a favorite of Kon Ichikawa, having starred or co-starred in seven of the director's works. She appeared in Kenji Mizoguchi's A Geisha and Street of Shame. She also appeared in Yasujirō Ozu's Floating Weeds.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 145
Film: 134 (92%)
Television: 11 (8%)
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Filmography
Original title: 居酒屋もへじ4
2015
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The pro ... view
Character:
Kihara Shino [New customer]
Original title: 居酒屋もへじ2
2013
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The pro ... view
Character:
Kihara Shino [New customer]
Apr 2011 (first aired)
Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot.
Set in Nagano prefecture, "Ohisama" covers the life of Yok ... view
Character:
Yoko Sudo (present day) (156 ep.)
Original title: 春の雪
2005
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngster ... view
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Jan 1998 (first aired)
The 37th NHK Taiga Drama is Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The series focuses on the life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and final ruler of the Tokugawa period. ... view
Character:
Yoshiko Tokugawa (49 ep.)
Apr 1996 (first aired)
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it ... view
Character:
Bistro Guest (1 ep.)
Dec 1991 (first aired)
The life of Prince Hikaru Genji, who was nicknamed "Shining" by people for his dazzling noble beauty. Based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasa ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Jan 1988 (first aired)
There was a very turbulent time in the warring period in the history, and Takeda Shingen is consider one of the great warlord among many other. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (50 ep.)
Oi Fujin (50 ep.)
Original title: 竹取物語
1987
Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter. ... view
Character:
Tayoshime
Original title: ときめきの午後
1985
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 ... view
Character:
Original title: 女の家庭
1977
The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work. ... view
Character:
Original title: 女の夏
1975
It depicts the emotional ups and downs of a designer who runs a clothing store and her husband over the course of a summer. ... view
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Original title: ある映画監督の生涯 溝口健二の記録
1975
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the lif ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: 女の休暇
1974
It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo. ... view
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Jun 1972 (first aired)
The movie stars Ayako Wakao. It depicts the emotional turmoil of a woman caught between two kinds of love: her familial love for her father and her ro ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 1972 (first aired)
Set at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era of peace, this tale of "Heike" (another name for the Ta ... view
Character:
Tokiwa Gozen (52 ep.)
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Original title: 男はつらいよ 純情篇
1971
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his s ... view
Character:
Yūko
Original title: スパルタ教育 くたばれ親父
1970
In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge, knocke ... view
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Original title: 座頭市と用心棒
1970
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 father ... view
Character:
Umeno
Original title: 天狗党
1969
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a lea ... view
Character:
Otsuta
Original title: 千羽鶴
1969
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunar ... view
Character:
Mrs. Ota
Original title: 濡れた二人
1968
A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet. ... view
Character:
Mariko Nozaki
Original title: 積木の箱
1968
On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he decides to outdo his father in terms of im ... view
Character:
Original title: 不信のとき
1968
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving ... view
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Original title: 鉄砲伝来記
1968
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka hel ... view
Character:
Wakasa
Original title: 華岡青洲の妻
1967
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined t ... view
Character:
Kae
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Original title: 妻二人
1967
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 sexu ... view
Character:
Original title: 雪の喪章
1967
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant. ... view
Character:
Taeko Sayama
Original title: 赤い天使
1966
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 ... view
Character:
Nurse Sakura Nishi
Original title: 雁
1966
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. The ... view
Character:
Otama
Original title: 氷点
1966
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her extramarital ... view
Character:
Natsue
Original title: 処女が見た
1966
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline ... view
Character:
Chiei, Nun
Original title: 刺青
1966
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 th ... view
Character:
Otsuya
Original title: 妻の日の愛のかたみに
1965
A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is to ... view
Character:
Original title: 不倫
1965
A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is ... view
Character:
Original title: 清作の妻
1965
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of po ... view
Character:
Okane
Original title: 帯をとく夏子
1965
"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 re-ma ... view
Character:
Original title: 女めくら物語
1965
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 bu ... view
Character:
Original title: 波影
1965
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film. ... view
Character:
Hinachiyo
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Original title: 悶え
1964
This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who sp ... view
Character:
Original title: 卍(まんじ)
1964
The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture. ... view
Character:
Mitsuko Tokumitsu
Original title: 忍びの者 霧隠才蔵
1964
[Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete ... view
Character:
Yodogimi
Original title: 獣の戯れ
1964
The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart. Koji Umeya, w ... view
Character:
Original title: 傷だらけの山河
1964
The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness. ... view
Character:
Mitsuko Fukumura
Original title: 「女の小箱」より夫が見た
1964
Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's hus ... view
Character:
Namiko Kawashiro
Character:
Isao Shiozuki
Original title: 新・忍びの者
1963
[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even har ... view
Character:
Yodogimi
Original title: 越前竹人形
1963
Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a courtesan who was once involved with Kisuke's late father. ... view
Character:
Tamae
Original title: 女が愛して憎むとき
1963
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a sec ... view
Character:
Toshiko Ikuta
Original title: わたしを深く埋めて
1963
A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Senzu
Original title: 女系家族
1963
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father. ... view
Character:
Fumino Hamada
Original title: 雪之丞変化
1963
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago. ... view
Character:
Namiji
Original title: しとやかな獣
1962
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover ther ... view
Character:
Yukie Mitani, the agent's accountant
Original title: 秦・始皇帝
1962
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted au ... view
Character:
Chiang-nu
Original title: 瘋癲老人日記
1962
Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still r ... view
Character:
Satsuko
Original title: その夜は忘れない
1962
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotte ... view
Character:
Original title: 爛
1962
High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him i ... view
Character:
Masuko
Original title: 雁の寺
1962
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 lasciv ... view
Character:
Satoko Kirihara
Original title: 家庭の事情
1962
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement ... view
Character:
Original title: 妻は告白する
1961
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession ... view
Character:
Ayako Takigawa
Original title: 新源氏物語
1961
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 furt ... view
Character:
Aoi no ue
Original title: 女は二度生まれる
1961
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 ... view
Character:
Koen
Original title: 女の勲章
1961
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shre ... view
Character:
Original title: 東京おにぎり娘
1961
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, b ... view
Character:
Mariko Naoe
Original title: 好色一代男
1961
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 pu ... view
Character:
Yuugiridayuu
Original title: お嬢さん
1961
A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the ... view
Character:
Kasumi Fujisawa
Original title: 婚期
1961
The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional father’s r ... view
Character:
Original title: 銀座っ子物語
1961
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met ... view
Character:
Chikami Akiyama
Original title: 花くらべ狸道中
1961
A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society. ... view
Character:
Tayori
Original title: 偽大学生
1960
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students. ... view
Character:
Mutsuko Takagi
Original title: 安珍と清姫
1960
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her in s ... view
Character:
Kiyohime
Original title: 勝利と敗北
1960
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in t ... view
Character:
Shizuko Abe
Original title: ぼんち
1960
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give t ... view
Character:
Ponta
Original title: からっ風野郎
1960
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of hi ... view
Character:
Yoshie Koizumi
Original title: 女経
1960
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 s ... view
Character:
Original title: 初春狸御殿
1959
Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as parasol ... view
Character:
Princess Kinuta / Okuro
Original title: 浮草
1959
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. ... view
Character:
Kayo
Character:
Shinobu Takaniwa
Original title: 美貌に罪あり
1959
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. ... view
Character:
Keiko Yoshino
Original title: 次郎長富士
1959
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa. ... view
Character:
Okiku
Original title: 氾濫
1959
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his w ... view
Character:
Takako Sanada
Original title: 薔薇の木にバラの花咲く
1959
Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bour ... view
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Original title: 最高殊勲夫人
1959
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 ... view
Character:
Kyoko Nonomiya
Original title: あなたと私の合言葉 さようなら、今日は
1959
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage. Thei ... view
Character:
Kazuko Aota
Original title: 夜の素顔
1958
A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way to ... view
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Original title: 一粒の麦
1958
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 wat ... view
Character:
Numata Ichiko
Original title: 嵐の講道館
1958
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his br ... view
Character:
Original title: 忠臣蔵
1958
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target ... view
Character:
Orin, Carpenter's Daughter
Original title: 螢火
1958
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 i ... view
Character:
Oryo
Original title: 東京の瞳
1958
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 ... view
Character:
Original title: 青空娘
1957
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she ... view
Character:
Yûko Ono
Character:
Original title: 夕凪
1957
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own. ... view
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Character:
Kazunomiya
Original title: 慕情の河
1957
A factory town along the Sumida River. Jun Aoki and Miyo Murakoshi, who work at this factory, love music, with Jun playing the cello and Miyo the viol ... view
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Original title: 月形半平太 花の巻 嵐の巻
1956
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the ... view
Character:
Yuri Mamiya
Original title: 日本橋
1956
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas ... view
Character:
Ochise
Original title: 涙
1956
A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover. ... view
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Original title: 滝の白糸
1956
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, thou ... view
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Original title: 処刑の部屋
1956
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game. ... view
Character:
Akiko Aochi
Original title: 新婚日記 嬉しい朝
1956
Newlyweds Saburo and Chieko are renting a room. The two get into a fight over something trivial. ... view
Character:
Original title: 新婚日記 恥しい夢
1956
Chieko gets married and moves from Kumamoto to Tokyo when her boyfriend Saburo, who works for the Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, is trans ... view
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Original title: 赤線地帯
1956
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law. ... view
Character:
Yasumi
Original title: 虹いくたび
1956
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they h ... view
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Original title: 珠はくだけず
1955
A love melodrama about five siblings and the daughter of a businessman. ... view
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Original title: 幻の馬
1955
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby. ... view
Character:
Yuki Shiraishi
Original title: 薔薇いくたびか
1955
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. ... view
Character:
Yumiko Kiryû
Original title: 月に飛ぶ雁
1955
The story follows privileged college students who secretly work part-time at a beauty salon, amidst emotional and social struggles. It explores love, ... view
Character:
Mizosawa Reiko
Original title: 螢の光
1955
A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister. ... view
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Character:
Yoko Kotani
Original title: 浅草の夜
1954
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this ... view
Character:
Namie Takashima
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Original title: 祇園囃子
1953
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve the ... view
Character:
Eiko
Original title: 続十代の性典
1953
Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student na ... view
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Original title: 死の街を脱れて
1952
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War. ... view
Character:
Setsuko Minami
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