Ayako Wakao
Birthday: 1933-11-08
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ayako Wakao, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Irezumi
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
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Street of Shame
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Victory and Defeat
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Afraid to Die
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A Geisha
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Floating Weeds
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Manji
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The Great Wall
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Princess from the Moon
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Red Angel
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A Lustful Man
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Blood End
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Elegant Beast
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A Wife Confesses
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Seisaku's Wife
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
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Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
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The Phantom Horse
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
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Evening Calm
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The Ladder of Success
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Jirocho Fuji
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Enchanted Princess
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Shroud of Snow
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A Rainbow at Every Turn
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Anchin and Kiyohime
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The False Student
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Love and Greed
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The Blue Sky Maiden
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Cascading White Threads
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Spring Snow
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Bridge of Japan
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Asakusa at Night
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A Public Benefactor
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While Yet a Wife
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Punishment Room
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Spartan Education
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Shi no machi wo nogarete
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The House of Wooden Blocks
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Two Wives
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Stolen Pleasure
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The Temple of Wild Geese
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A Night to Remember
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A Grain of Wheat
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Onna no Kyūka
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Firefly Light
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The Time of Reckoning
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Onna no Natsu
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Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree
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Izakaya Moheji 4
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Izakaya Moheji 2
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Onna no Katei
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
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Modae
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
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Bonchi
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A Woman's Testament
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The Freezing Point
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Thousand Cranes
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his fat...
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The Saga of Tanegashima
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A Geisha's Diary
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
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The Virgin Witness
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The Radiant Prince
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Vagabonds from Badgerville
A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society....
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Marriageable Age
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Goodbye, Hello
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The Ginza Three Boys
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One Day at Summer's End
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Triangle Moods
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Bury Me Deep
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Les Mesdemoiselles
A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in t...
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She Came For Love
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Beauty the Enemy
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Strange Triangle
A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his con...
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Their Legacy
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The Most Valuable Wife
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The Third Will
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after...
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A Design for Dying
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are R...
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Wild Geese
Otama, daughter of a poor candy vendor, becomes the mistress of a man whom she believes to be a wido...
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The Cast-Off
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executiv...
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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa....
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a c...
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The Frolic of the Beasts
The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though he...
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The Story of a Blind Woman
At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist....
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Tokyo Eyes
A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope,...
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The Judo Champ
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected ...
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Tokimeki no Gogo
Through the relationship between a woman who has lost her husband and her brother-in-law who propose...
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I'll Cry Alone
"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of...
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Tama wa kudakezu
A love melodrama about five siblings and the daughter of a businessman....
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Newlywed Diary: An Embarrassing Dream
Chieko gets married and moves from Kumamoto to Tokyo when her boyfriend Saburo, who works for the Te...
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Shinkon nikki: Ureshii asa
Newlyweds Saburo and Chieko are renting a room. The two get into a fight over something trivial....
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Bojô no kawa
A factory town along the Sumida River. Jun Aoki and Miyo Murakoshi, who work at this factory, love m...
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Farewell, Innocence
The story follows privileged college students who secretly work part-time at a beauty salon, amidst ...
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