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Ayako Wakao is a Actor Japonaise born on 8 november 1933 at Tokyo (Japon)

Ayako Wakao

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Birth name 若尾文子 Wakao Ayako
Nationality Japon
Birth 8 november 1933 (90 years) at Tokyo (Japon)

Ayako Wakao (若尾 文子, Wakao Ayako, November 8, 1933, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress. Contracted to Daiei Studios in 1951 as part of the fifth "New Face" group, she often appeared in the films of director Yasuzo Masumura. She has appeared in nearly 160 films since her debut in 1952.

Biography

Issue de l'école de la Daiei, elle obtint son premier rôle à l'âge de dix-huit ans, en 1952. Remarquée pour sa beauté, elle tourna ensuite avec Kenji Mizoguchi dans Les Musiciens de Gion, puis dans le dernier film de celui-ci, la Rue de la honte. À la fin de ces années 1950, l'étendue de son talent apparaissait déjà, de Jeune fille sous le ciel bleu de Yasuzō Masumura à Herbes flottantes de Yasujirō Ozu. Dans les années 1960, elle devint l'actrice principale de Masumura, qui en fit autant le modèle de la nouvelle femme japonaise que de la femme éternelle. Leur collaboration cessa en 1969 et marqua le déclin de la carrière de Wakao. Par la suite, elle joua surtout dans des séries télévisées.

Ayako Wakao a tourné dans près de 160 films entre 1952 et 1987.

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Filmography of Ayako Wakao (27 films)

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Actress

Spring Snow, 2h30
Directed by Isao Yukisada
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yūko Takeuchi, Sōsuke Takaoka, Michiyo Okusu, Tomorowo Taguchi, Kenjirō Ishimaru
Rating65% 3.290183.290183.290183.290183.29018
Spring Snow starts in 1912, as Emperor Taisho begins his short reign and Japan's upper classes are mimicking the tastes and manners of Europe's aristocrats. Among them are two children, Kiyoaki Matsugae (Satoshi Tsumabuki) and Satoko Ayakura (Yuko Takeuchi).
Princess from the Moon, 2h1
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Toshiro Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Kōji Ishizaka, Kiichi Nakai, Megumi Odaka
Roles Tayoshime
Rating62% 3.148343.148343.148343.148343.14834
One day wood cutter Taketori-no-Miyatsuko (Toshiro Mifune) discovers a baby girl while he's out in the forest visiting his daughter's grave. Not wanting to leave the infant to die and because of her resemblance to his dead daughter, he takes the child home with him- only to discover that the child grows at an extraordinarily fast rate. Incredibly beautiful, the now grown child Kaya (Yasuko Sawaguchi) attracts the attention of everyone around her, including the land's Emperor. Unwilling to accept their advances, Kaya gives the men a list of increasingly difficult tasks. By the film's end Kaya returns to outer-space by way of a space ship.
Tora-san's Shattered Romance, 1h30
Directed by Yōji Yamada
Origin Japon
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Kiyoshi Atsumi, Ayako Wakao, Chieko Baishō, Chishū Ryū, Nobuko Miyamoto, Hisaya Morishige
Roles Yūko
Rating66% 3.3271953.3271953.3271953.3271953.327195
A girl who has escaped from an institution falls in love with Tora-san. He decides to marry her, but his family and the girl's teacher break up the romance.
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, 1h19
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Ayako Wakao, Toshiro Mifune, Osamu Takizawa, Masakane Yonekura, Shigeru Kōyama
Roles Umeno
Rating69% 3.494043.494043.494043.494043.49404
Zatoïchi, dont la tête a été mise à prix, vient trouver refuge dans un village qu’il visita 3 ans auparavant. Mais l’endroit est depuis tombé entre les mains du parrain Masagoro, réputé pour avoir dérobé une cargaison d’or du Shogun. Masagoro vient d’embaucher un mystérieux garde du corps (Toshiro Mifune), amoureux de la maîtresse d’un marchand, père et rival de Masagoro. Ichi se fait recruter par ce marchand et commence à entretenir une étrange amitié / rivalité avec le garde du corps. La guerre entre les clans gronde…
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka, 1h40
Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Ayako Wakao, Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Hideko Takamine, Yūnosuke Itō, Saburo Date, Misako Watanabe
Roles Kae
Rating73% 3.6982853.6982853.6982853.6982853.698285
Japon, vers 1785. La jolie Kaé épouse par procuration Unpei Hanaoka, le fils du fanfaron médecin de campagne Naomichi et de la belle Otsugi, parti faire des études de médecine à Kyoto. Elle s'installe donc chez ses beaux-parents où elle est bien accueillie durant les trois années que dure l'attente du retour du fils. Mais tout change lorsque le jeune médecin Unpei revient enfin vivre et exercer dans la maison familiale, une rivalité s'installe entre Otsugi et Kaé, l'épouse de son fils.
Red Angel
Red Angel (1966)
, 1h35
Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Actors Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida
Roles Nurse Sakura Nishi
Rating77% 3.8892753.8892753.8892753.8892753.889275
Sakura Nishi is a Japanese nurse in China during the Sino-Japanese war. Initially she works in a ward of chronically ill men. She is raped by a patient, Sakamoto. She reports the rape and Sakamoto is sent to the front lines. Nishi is sent to a field hospital. The hospital is overwhelmed and has too few doctors and medicine to treat all the patients. Nishi works with Doctor Okabe. Sakamoto comes in, shot in the belly and dying. Okabe refuses to treat him, but Nishi pleads with him. Okabe tries to save Sakamoto on condition that Nishi will come to his room that night. Sakamoto dies, but Nishi goes to Okabe's room. However, Okabe just wants to talk to Nishi and drink his French wine with her. He asks her to inject him with morphine then sleeps. Nishi takes pity on a man who has lost his arms, and forms a sexual relationship with him. The man then commits suicide.
Irezumi
Irezumi (1966)
, 1h26
Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ayako Wakao, Kei Satō
Roles Otsuya
Rating71% 3.5873253.5873253.5873253.5873253.587325
Fuyant son père et sa famille entière parce que ces derniers n'ont pas voulu accepter la relation amoureuse improbable qu'elle entretient avec un simple commis, Otsuya trouve refuge chez un ami, le dénommé Gonji. La jeune femme et son amant vont alors connaître les pires mésaventures qui soient : Gonji tentera en effet d'abuser d'Otsuya et de faire assassiner le naïf apprenti. Dans le même temps le prétendu ami de la famille empochera l'argent donné par les parents pour rechercher Otsuya et pour finir vendra Otsuya à une maison de geishas pour une belle somme d'argent. Otsuya humiliée, restera toujours rebelle et revendicative. Mais surtout, à partir du jour où un mystérieux tatoueur lui gravera une araignée dévoreuse à même le dos, Otsuya se révélera être une véritable prêtresse vengeresse et le plus bel ange exterminateur qui soit.
Seisaku's Wife, 1h33
Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Actors Ayako Wakao, Takahiro Tamura, Taiji Tonoyama, Mikio Narita
Roles Okane
Rating76% 3.824793.824793.824793.824793.82479
Japon, début du XX siècle. Pour aider sa famille à sortir de la misère, Okane est devenue la femme d'un riche marchand bien plus âgé qu'elle. À la mort de celui-ci, sur les instances d'Omaki sa mère, elle retourne vivre dans son village natal. Mais les deux femmes ne sont pas acceptées du fait du passé d'Okane.
Love and Greed, 1h32
Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Ayako Wakao, Kyōko Kishida, Eitarō Ozawa, Kyōko Enami, Kenji Ōyama
Roles Namiko Kawashiro
Rating69% 3.490193.490193.490193.490193.49019
An Actor's Revenge, 1h53
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about television
Actors Kazuo Hasegawa, Ayako Wakao, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Shintarō Katsu, Eiji Funakoshi
Roles Namiji
Rating73% 3.688283.688283.688283.688283.68828
Three men, Sansai Dobe (Ganjirō Nakamura), Kawaguchiya (Saburō Date) and Hiromiya (Eijirō Yanagi) are responsible for the deaths of seven-year-old Yukitarō’s mother and father. Yukitarō is adopted and brought up by Kikunojō Nakamura (Chūsha Ichikawa), the actor-manager of an Osaka kabuki troupe. The adult Yukitarō (Kazuo Hasegawa) becomes an onnagata, a male actor who plays female roles. He takes the stage name Yukinojō. Like many of the great onnagata, particularly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he wears women’s clothes and uses the language and mannerisms of a woman offstage as well as on. Many years later, the troupe pays a visit to Edo, where the three men responsible for his parents’ deaths now live. Yukinojō brings about their deaths by means of various stratagems, then, apparently overcome by what he has done, retires from the stage and disappears, no-one knows where. The events of the film are coolly observed and sardonically commented on by the Robin-Hood-like thief Yamitarō, also played by Hasegawa.
A Woman's Testament, 1h40
Directed by Kon Ichikawa, Yasuzō Masumura, Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Genres Drama
Actors Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Sachiko Hidari, Fujiko Yamamoto, Eiji Funakoshi
Roles Kimi
Rating66% 3.3184153.3184153.3184153.3184153.318415
This is a series of three stories revolving around women. The first story is about a young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. She has what seems like a good plan for a strong financial future; she is investing in a company on the one hand, and on the other, taking action to snare the son of the company's owner in marriage. In the second story, a young woman is employed by a real estate agent in order to convince male clients to invest in worthless property, usually by bathing with them. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no financial worries. But when she falls in love with a forger, she opts to wait for him after he is sent to prison. This causes trouble for her in family and society, but she ignores them despite the pressure.
Afraid to Die, 1h36
Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Yukio Mishima, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi, Takashi Shimura, Ken Mitsuda, Shigeru Kōyama
Roles Yoshie Koizumi
Rating63% 3.194553.194553.194553.194553.19455
Takeo, un jeune yakuza, sort de prison pour réintégrer un monde de kidnappings et meurtres prémédités. Partagé entre le devoir familial, l’instinct de survie et son amour pour sa nouvelle conquete Yoshie, Takeo suit la route de la trahison jusqu’à se rendre compte qu’il n’échappera pas à son destin.