Ayako Wakao
Acting • Born 1933-11-08
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.
Filmography
146 credits
Musume no boken
Movie • 1958
An Actor's Revenge
Movie • 1963
Namiji
Irezumi
Movie • 1966
Otsuya
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Movie • 1970
Umeno
Street of Shame
Movie • 1956
Yasumi
Victory and Defeat
Movie • 1960
Shizuko Abe
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
Movie • 1962
Afraid to Die
Movie • 1960
Yoshie Koizumi
A Geisha
Movie • 1953
Eiko
Floating Weeds
Movie • 1959
Kayo
Manji
Movie • 1964
Mitsuko Tokumitsu
The Great Wall
Movie • 1962
Chiang-nu
Princess from the Moon
Movie • 1987
Tayoshime
Red Angel
Movie • 1966
Nurse Sakura Nishi
A Lustful Man
Movie • 1961
Yuugiridayuu
Blood End
Movie • 1969
Otsuta
Elegant Beast
Movie • 1962
Yukie Mitani, the agent's accountant
A Wife Confesses
Movie • 1961
Ayako Takigawa
Seisaku's Wife
Movie • 1965
Okane
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Movie • 1967
Kae
Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
Movie • 1964
Yodogimi
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
Movie • 1963
Yodogimi
The Phantom Horse
Movie • 1955
Yuki Shiraishi
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Movie • 1971
Yūko
Evening Calm
Movie • 1957
The Ladder of Success
Movie • 1958
Jirocho Fuji
Movie • 1959
Okiku
The Betrothed
Movie • 1957
Enchanted Princess
Movie • 1959
Princess Kinuta / Okuro
Maboroshi no Satsui
Movie • 1971
Shroud of Snow
Movie • 1967
Taeko Sayama
A Rainbow at Every Turn
Movie • 1956
Anchin and Kiyohime
Movie • 1960
Kiyohime
The False Student
Movie • 1960
Mutsuko Takagi
The Blue Sky Maiden
Movie • 1957
Yûko Ono
Love and Greed
Movie • 1964
Namiko Kawashiro
Cascading White Threads
Movie • 1956
Spring Snow
Movie • 2005
Bridge of Japan
Movie • 1956
Ochise
Asakusa at Night
Movie • 1954
Namie Takashima
A Public Benefactor
Movie • 1964
Mitsuko Fukumura
While Yet a Wife
Movie • 1965
Punishment Room
Movie • 1956
Akiko Aochi
A Certain Woman
Movie • 1954
Aiko, Yoko's sister
Spartan Education
Movie • 1970
Shi no machi wo nogarete
Movie • 1952
Setsuko Minami
Two Wives
Movie • 1967
Stolen Pleasure
Movie • 1962
Masuko
The House of Wooden Blocks
Movie • 1968
The Temple of Wild Geese
Movie • 1962
Satoko Kirihara
When the Cookie Crumbles
Movie • 1967
A Night to Remember
Movie • 1962
A Grain of Wheat
Movie • 1958
Numata Ichiko
Onna no Kyūka
Movie • 1974
Firefly Light
Movie • 1958
Oryo
The Time of Reckoning
Movie • 1968
Onna no Natsu
Movie • 1975
Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree
Movie • 1959
Izakaya Moheji 2
Movie • 2013
Kihara Shino [New customer]
Izakaya Moheji 4
Movie • 2015
Kihara Shino [New customer]
Onna no Katei
Movie • 1977
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Movie • 1962
Satsuko
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Movie • 1963
Tamae
Modae
Movie • 1964
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Movie • 1958
Orin, Carpenter's Daughter
The Forest of No Escape
Movie • 1965
Bonchi
Movie • 1960
Ponta
Farewell Song
Movie • 1955
A Woman's Testament
Movie • 1960
Freezing Point
Movie • 1966
Natsue
Thousand Cranes
Movie • 1969
Mrs. Ota
The Saga of Tanegashima
Movie • 1968
Wakasa
A Geisha's Diary
Movie • 1961
Koen
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Movie • 1975
Self
Love of the Princess
Movie • 1957
Kazunomiya
The Messenger from the Moon
Movie • 1954
Yoko Kotani
The Virgin Witness
Movie • 1966
Chiei, Nun
The Radiant Prince
Movie • 1961
Aoi no ue
Vagabonds from Badgerville
Movie • 1961
Tayori
Marriageable Age
Movie • 1961
Goodbye, Hello
Movie • 1959
Kazuko Aota
The Ginza Three Boys
Movie • 1961
Chikami Akiyama
Girls Born in August
Movie • 1963
One Day at Summer's End
Movie • 1968
Mariko Nozaki
Triangle Moods
Movie • 1961
Mariko Naoe
Lady Chatterley of Japan
Movie • 1953
Sakiko Takashima
Les Mesdemoiselles
Movie • 1961
Kasumi Fujisawa
She Came For Love
Movie • 1963
Toshiko Ikuta
Bury Me Deep
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Senzu
The Rockabilly Lady
Movie • 1960
Mie Yashiro
Beauty the Enemy
Movie • 1959
Keiko Yoshino
Hot Spring Doctress
Movie • 1964
Isao Shiozuki
Closing Time
Movie • 1962
Kimiko Matsuno
Red Love, Green Love
Movie • 1962
Yukiko Oda
母子鶴
Movie • 1952
Eiko
The Most Valuable Wife
Movie • 1959
Kyoko Nonomiya
Their Legacy
Movie • 1962
Strange Triangle
Movie • 1965
Tears
Movie • 1956
The Third Will
Movie • 1963
Fumino Hamada
A Design for Dying
Movie • 1961
Wild Geese
Movie • 1966
Otama
The Cast-Off
Movie • 1959
Takako Sanada
Zoku jūdai no seiten
Movie • 1953
Jūdai no yūwaku
Movie • 1953
Jūdai no seiten
Movie • 1953
Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten
Movie • 1953
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Movie • 1955
Yumiko Kiryû
Nami kage
Movie • 1965
Hinachiyo
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Movie • 1956
Yuri Mamiya
The Gaijin
Movie • 1959
The Frolic of the Beasts
Movie • 1964
The Story of a Blind Woman
Movie • 1965
Ripe and Marriageable
Movie • 1959
Shinobu Takaniwa
Tokyo Eyes
Movie • 1958
Love River
Movie • 1958
Mother
Movie • 1958
Miss Mochizuki
The Judo Champ
Movie • 1958
Daiei Studio is Bustling
Movie • 1957
Tokimeki no Gogo
Movie • 1985
Shojo jutai
Movie • 1966
Aiko Takano
I'll Cry Alone
Movie • 1965
Shinkon nanatsu no tanoshimi
Movie • 1958
Asu wa Nichiyōbi
Movie • 1952
Kokoro no nichigetsu
Movie • 1954
Maiko monogatari
Movie • 1954
Victory or Defeat
Movie • 1954
Tama wa kudakezu
Movie • 1955
Newlywed Diary: An Embarrassing Dream
Movie • 1956
Shinkon nikki: Ureshii asa
Movie • 1956
Bojô no kawa
Movie • 1957
Farewell, Innocence
Movie • 1955
Mizosawa Reiko
Mōjū Tsukai no Shōjo
Movie • 1952
Himitsu
Movie • 1952
Genroku Taiheiki
TV • 1975
Someko
Shin Heike Monogatari
TV • 1972
Tokiwa Gozen
Takeda Shingen
TV • 1988
SMAP×SMAP
TV • 1996
Bistro Guest
Ohisama
TV • 2011
Yoko Sudo (present day)
ときめきの午後
TV • 1985
女の夏
TV • 1975
女の家庭
TV • 1974
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
TV • 1998
Yoshiko Tokugawa
Takeda Shingen
TV • 1988
Oi Fujin
愛と愛
TV • 1972
The Tale of Genji
TV • 1991