Ayako Wakao

A lowly divorcee is tricked into becoming the mistress of a despised moneylender,
but soon falls in love with a student.Read More »

Synopsis:
A sumptuous period melodrama; a story of aristocratic star-crossed love by one of Mizoguchi’s favorite authors, Matsutaro Kawaguchi (Ugetsu).Read More »

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.Read More »

Synopsis:
A wife (Ayako Wakao) is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband (Eiji Funakoshi) loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband’s future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing she can do for him.Read More »

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Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Okane, a beautiful girl from a poor family, must serve as a mistress to a much older rich man. When he and her father die, the young woman returns with her mother to their native village. The locals despise them because of Okane’s past, the young woman meets them with arrogance and haughty behavior. But then everything changes when her mother dies and the handsome Seisaku, a young man who is regarded as a model soldier and the son-in-law of their dreams by the villagers, helps her in this difficult situation. Read More »

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The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart.
Kouji Umeya, who was working part-time at a shop, was able to see the unparallel rag, and brought her to the cheerful site.
Furthermore, Kenji will cause serious injury to the spot.
Kouji who came to the end of her uniform and started her bizarre living in Izu villa home.Read More »

A comedy movie for salaryman.Read More »

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A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline, she ends up falling in love with the nun who is in charge of her.Read More »

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A melodrama adapted by Yamada Nobuo and Shigemori Takako from Sasazawa Saho’s novel The Lost Woman and directed by Yasuzô Masumura.

Mariko had planned a trip as a couple, but it was cancelled again due to her husband Tetsuya’s work schedule. Feeling dissatisfied with her life with her husband, Mariko goes to Izu by herself and decides to stay at the house of Katsue, who used to work at Mariko’s parents’ house. Mariko meets a young man named Shigeo there. She is puzzled by Shigeo’s willingness to reveal his thoughts and feelings, but Mariko soon finds herself attracted to his honesty. Read More »