Ayako Wakao
Biography
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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.
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Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1933-11-08
Place of birth
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Images
Cast
Musume no boken
1958
0.00
An Actor's Revenge
1963
6.62
Irezumi
1966
6.80
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
1970
6.70
Street of Shame
1956
7.68
Victory and Defeat
1960
0.00
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
1962
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Afraid to Die
1960
6.00
A Geisha
1953
7.53
Floating Weeds
1959
7.46
Manji
1964
6.30
The Great Wall
1962
6.00
Princess from the Moon
1987
6.30
Red Angel
1966
7.60
A Lustful Man
1961
5.38
Blood End
1969
6.20
Elegant Beast
1962
7.10
A Wife Confesses
1961
6.50
Seisaku's Wife
1965
7.25
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
6.22
Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
1964
6.20
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
1963
7.00
The Phantom Horse
1955
6.00
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1971
7.20
Evening Calm
1957
0.00
The Ladder of Success
1958
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Jirocho Fuji
1959
6.80
The Betrothed
1957
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Enchanted Princess
1959
6.20
幻の殺意
1971
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Shroud of Snow
1967
7.00
A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956
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Anchin and Kiyohime
1960
3.00
The False Student
1960
6.50
Love and Greed
1964
7.00
The Blue Sky Maiden
1957
6.80
Cascading White Threads
1956
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Spring Snow
2005
4.00
Bridge of Japan
1956
7.30
Asakusa at Night
1954
0.00
A Public Benefactor
1964
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While Yet a Wife
1965
7.00
Punishment Room
1956
6.90
A Certain Woman
1954
0.00
Spartan Education
1970
0.00
Shi no machi wo nogarete
1952
0.00
The House of Wooden Blocks
1968
6.50
Two Wives
1967
7.30
Stolen Pleasure
1962
6.80
The Temple of Wild Geese
1962
6.50
When the Cookie Crumbles
1967
6.00
A Night to Remember
1962
6.00
A Grain of Wheat
1958
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Onna no Kyūka
1974
0.00
Firefly Light
1958
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The Time of Reckoning
1968
7.00
Onna no Natsu
1975
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Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree
1959
8.00
Izakaya Moheji 4
2015
0.00
Izakaya Moheji 2
2013
0.00
Onna no Katei
1977
0.00
Diary of a Mad Old Man
1962
6.50
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1963
7.60
Modae
1964
0.00
The Loyal 47 Ronin
1958
6.00
The Forest of No Escape
1965
0.00
Bonchi
1960
7.00
Farewell Song
1955
0.00
A Woman's Testament
1960
5.80
The Freezing Point
1966
6.80
Thousand Cranes
1969
8.30
The Saga of Tanegashima
1968
5.00
A Geisha's Diary
1961
7.40
Love of the Princess
1957
0.00
The Messenger from the Moon
1954
0.00
The Virgin Witness
1966
0.00
The Radiant Prince
1961
6.00
Vagabonds from Badgerville
1961
7.00
Marriageable Age
1961
0.00
Goodbye, Hello
1959
6.00
The Ginza Three Boys
1961
0.00
Girls Born in August
1963
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One Day at Summer's End
1968
5.00
Lady Chatterley of Japan
1953
0.00
Triangle Moods
1961
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Bury Me Deep
1963
6.00
The Rockabilly Lady
1960
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Les Mesdemoiselles
1961
6.00
She Came For Love
1963
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Hot Spring Doctress
1964
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Beauty the Enemy
1959
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Red Love, Green Love
1962
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Closing Time
1962
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母子鶴
1952
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Strange Triangle
1965
6.00
Their Legacy
1962
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The Most Valuable Wife
1959
7.50
Tears
1956
0.00
The Third Will
1963
8.00
A Design for Dying
1961
6.00
Wild Geese
1966
5.00
The Cast-Off
1959
6.00
Zoku jūdai no seiten
1953
0.00
Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten
1953
0.00
Jūdai no seiten
1953
0.00
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
0.00
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
1955
0.00
Nami kage
1965
0.00
Tsukigata Hanpeita
1956
7.00
The Gaijin
1959
0.00
The Frolic of the Beasts
1964
0.00
The Story of a Blind Woman
1965
5.00
Ripe and Marriageable
1959
0.00
Tokyo Eyes
1958
0.00
Love River
1958
0.00
Mother
1958
0.00
The Judo Champ
1958
0.00
Daiei Studio is Bustling
1957
0.00
Tokimeki no Gogo
1985
0.00
Shojo jutai
1966
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I'll Cry Alone
1965
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Shinkon nanatsu no tanoshimi
1958
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Asu wa Nichiyōbi
1952
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Kokoro no nichigetsu
1954
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Maiko monogatari
1954
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Victory or Defeat
1954
0.00
Tama wa kudakezu
1955
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Shinkon nikki: Ureshii asa
1956
0.00
Bojô no kawa
1957
0.00
Farewell, Innocence
1955
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Mōjū Tsukai no Shōjo
1952
0.00