A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Chōchō Miyako, Eiji Funakoshi, Hideo Takamatsu, Hisano Yamaoka, Kyū Sazanka, Manamitsu Kawabata, Shoichi Ozawa, Yūko Hamada, Yūnosuke Itō

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 ...

Genre: Drama,Romance,War

Actors:Ayako Ikegami, Ayako Wakao, Daigo Inoue, Daihachi Kita, Jōtarō Senba, Jun Osanai, Ranko Akagi, Shinsuke Ashida, Yūsuke Kawazu

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

Genre: Drama

Actors:Akihiko Yusa, Ayako Wakao, Bontarō Miake, Eijirō Yanagi, Fumiko Okamura, Koreya Senda, Kuniko Miyake, Naoshi Chiba, Yoshirō Kitahara, Yukihiko Iwadare

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.

Genre: Adventure,Drama,Science Fiction

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Kiichi Nakai, Koasa Shunpūtei, Koji Ishizaka, Megumi Odaka, Takatoshi Takeda, Toshirō Mifune, Yasuko Sawaguchi

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Atsuko Kindaichi, Ayako Wakao, Chieko Higashiyama, Eiji Funakoshi, Hiromi Ichida, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hisako Takihana, Mieko Kondō, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yatsuko Tan'ami

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 ...

Genre: Drama,Romance,War

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Nobuo Chiba, Noriko Hodaka, Reiko Hoshikawa, Shoichi Ozawa, Taiji Tonoyama, Takahiro Tamura, Yuka Konno, Yūzō Hayakawa

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 ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Chieko Murata, Frankie Sakai, Hisano Yamaoka, Jun Fujimaki, Kyōko Enami, Kyū Sazanka, Mayumi Kurata, Michiko Takano, Sō Yamamura

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father’s. During their flight, Otsuya’s ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Thriller

Actors:Akio Hasegawa, Asao Uchida, Ayako Wakao, Fujio Suga, Gaku Yamamoto, Jun Fujikawa, Kei Satō, Kikue Mōri, Reiko Fujiwara, Tadashi Iwata

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 ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Chieko Higashiyama, Hiroko Yajima, Keizō Kawasaki, Kenji Sugawara, Kuniko Miyake, Noriko Hodaka, Ryūji Shinagawa, Yoshiko Fujita, Yuko Yashio

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a ‘Fire Festival’ in Akiba to a decisive battle by ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi, Fujiko Yamamoto, Jun Negami, Kazuo Hasegawa, Kōjirō Hongō, Machiko Kyō, Naritoshi Hayashi, Raizō Ichikawa

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of ...

Genre: Comedy

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Chieko Baisho, Chieko Misaki, Gajirō Satō, Gin Maeda, Hisao Dazai, Kanjiro Osugi, Kimiyo Ōtsuka, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Ryûsuke Kita

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 ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi, Keizō Kawasaki, Ken Mitsuda, Mayumi Kurata, Michiko Ono, Shigeru Kōyama, Takashi Shimura, Yoshie Mizutani, Yukio Mishima

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.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Ichirō Amano, Jun Hamamura, Junichiro Yamashita, Kō Nishimura, Saburo Date, San'emon Arashi, Taiji Tonoyama, Tamao Nakamura, Yūsaku Terashima

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Hideo Sunazuka, Kanjūrō Arashi, Masakane Yonekura, Osamu Takizawa, Shigeru Kōyama, Shin Kishida, Toshirō Mifune, Toshiyuki Hosokawa

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi, Fumiko Murata, Ken Mitsuda, Kuniko Tomita, Kyôko Kishida, Kyoko Nagumo, Kyū Sazanka, Reiko Hibiki, Yūsuke Kawazu

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

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Chūsha Ichikawa, Eiji Funakoshi, Eijirō Yanagi, Fujiko Yamamoto, Jun Hamamura, Kazuo Hasegawa, Kikue Mōri, Naritoshi Hayashi, Saburo Date

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.

Genre: Drama,Mystery,Romance

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Eitarō Ozawa, Fumiko Murata, Haruko Mabuchi, Hideo Takamatsu, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Jun Negami, Tōru Konoki, Tsutomu Nakata, Yūji Moriya

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Fubuki Koshiji, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Isuzu Yamada, Kikue Mōri, Mayumi Kurata, Mitsuko Kusabue, Naritoshi Hayashi, Raizō Ichikawa, Tamao Nakamura

When a theater troupe’s master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Chishū Ryū, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Haruko Sugimura, Haruo Tanaka, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Kōji Mitsui, Machiko Kyō, Yosuke Irie

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

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Chieko Naniwa, Eitarō Shindō, Ichirō Sugai, Kanji Koshiba, Kikue Mōri, Michiyo Kogure, Saburo Date, Seizaburō Kawazu, Sumao Ishihara