Search results for "Ayako Wakao"
The Most Valuable Madam

The Most Valuable Madam

The Most Valuable Madam
IMDb: 7
95

lchiro, the president of Mihara & Co., is henpecked by his wife Momoko, a clever and beautiful woman, but prattling and intrusive. She makes her younger sister Nashiko marry lchiro’s…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
A Geisha’s Diary

A Geisha’s Diary

A Geisha’s Diary
IMDb: 7.4
99

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…

Genre: Drama
The Graceful Brute

The Graceful Brute

The Graceful Brute
IMDb: 7.3
96

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Bamboo Doll of Echizen
IMDb: 7.3
103

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
Seisaku’s Wife

Seisaku’s Wife

Seisaku’s Wife
IMDb: 7.7
93

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.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Afraid to Die

Afraid to Die

Afraid to Die
IMDb: 6.4
96

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 his recently deceased…

Genre: Action, Drama
Princess from the Moon

Princess from the Moon

Princess from the Moon
IMDb: 6.3
121

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.

Tora-san’s Shattered Romance

Tora-san’s Shattered Romance

Tora-san’s Shattered Romance
IMDb: 6.7
90

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant…

Genre: Comedy
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
IMDb: 7
115

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 merchant rumored…

A Wife Confesses

A Wife Confesses

A Wife Confesses
IMDb: 7.5
91

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
A Geisha

A Geisha

A Geisha
IMDb: 7.6
85

Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain men.

Genre: Drama
Bridge of Japan

Bridge of Japan

Bridge of Japan
IMDb: 7.1
112

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—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Manji

Manji

Manji
IMDb: 6.9
91

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

Genre: Drama
Red Angel

Red Angel

Red Angel
IMDb: 7.8
95

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. Okabe…

Genre: Drama, War
An Actor’s Revenge

An Actor’s Revenge

An Actor’s Revenge
IMDb: 7.4
113

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly…

Genre: Drama
Floating Weeds

Floating Weeds

Floating Weeds
IMDb: 8
115

A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi…

Genre: Drama
Street of Shame

Street of Shame

Street of Shame
IMDb: 7.8
87

The personal tales of various sex workers who occupy a Japanese brothel.

Genre: Drama
Jirocho Fuji

Jirocho Fuji

Jirocho Fuji
IMDb: 6.8
105

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.

Genre: Drama
Bonchi

Bonchi

Bonchi
IMDb: 7
105

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business,…

Genre: Drama
The Phantom Horse

The Phantom Horse

The Phantom Horse
IMDb: 6.3
90

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

Genre: Drama
The Blue Sky Maiden

The Blue Sky Maiden

The Blue Sky Maiden
IMDb: 7.1
89

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 is not…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Irezumi

Irezumi

Irezumi
IMDb: 7.1
86

A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman’s back. She and her lover are then forced into a conspiracy-born nightmare, where they face the…

Genre: Drama, Thriller