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