Ayako Wakao Movies

Floating Weeds

80/100

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

Street of Shame

79/100

The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a Japanese brothel.

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

71/100

Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?

Yukinojôs Rache - Von Dämonen verzauberte Schneemacht

76/100

Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.

Gion bayashi

77/100

In the post-war, the sixteen year-old teenager Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion...

The Red Angel

80/100

During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.

Manji - Die Liebenden

71/100

A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.

Irezumi

72/100

A seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.

Man of the Biting Wind

66/100

Takeo is a young yakuza who renounces his former criminal activities after being released from prison. But sometimes escaping the past is not so easy.

A Wife Confesses

77/100

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial.

Seisaku's Wife

78/100

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 poverty.

Princess from the Moon

63/100

Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the original tale, though, ... See full summary »

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

73/100

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal ... See full summary »

Punishment Room

72/100

Katsumi is a university student who has no respect for his hardworking parents, his professors, or even his friends. He helps one friend obtain a loan to finance a dance, by humiliating his... See full summary »

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

75/100

Haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

Tengu-tô

65/100

Recounts the events that the Mito Tengu Group undertook when they attempted to overthrow the Shogunate during the Bakumatsu Period.

Otto ga mita 'Onna no kobako' yori

74/100

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 husband. As personal lives and ... See full summary »

Kizudarake no sanga

54/100

Anchin to Kiyohime

67/100

Onsen jôi

Modae

Yuunagi

Shinobi No Mono 3: Resurrection

69/100

Koshoku ichidai otoko

67/100

The Blue Sky Maiden

75/100