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Ayako Wakao

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan, 1933-11-08

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	Shi no machi wo nogarete	Setsuko Minami	0
2	1952	母子鶴	Eiko	0
3	1952	Asu wa Nichiyōbi		0
4	1953	Jūdai no seiten		0
5	1953	Lady Chatterley of Japan	Sakiko Takashima	0
6	1953	Zoku jūdai no seiten		0
7	1953	A Geisha	Eiko	75
8	1953	Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten		0
9	1953	Jūdai no yūwaku		0
10	1954	Kokoro no nichigetsu		0
11	1954	Maiko monogatari		0
12	1954	A Certain Woman	Aiko, Yoko's sister	0
13	1954	Asakusa at Night	Namie Takashima	0
14	1954	The Messenger from the Moon	Yoko Kotani	0
15	1954	Victory or Defeat		0
16	1955	Farewell Song		0
17	1955	A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love	Yumiko Kiryû	0
18	1955	The Phantom Horse	Yuki Shiraishi	60
19	1956	A Rainbow at Every Turn		0
20	1956	Street of Shame	Yasumi	77
21	1956	Punishment Room	Akiko Aochi	69
22	1956	Cascading White Threads		0
23	1956	Tears		0
24	1956	Bridge of Japan	Ochise	73
25	1956	Tsukigata Hanpeita	Yuri Mamiya	70
26	1957	Daiei Studio is Bustling		0
27	1957	Love of the Princess	Kazunomiya	0
28	1957	Evening Calm		0
29	1957	The Betrothed		0
30	1957	The Blue Sky Maiden	Yûko Ono	68
31	1958	Tokyo Eyes		0
32	1958	Shinkon nanatsu no tanoshimi		0
33	1958	Mother	Miss Mochizuki	0
34	1958	Firefly Light	Oryo	0
35	1958	The Loyal 47 Ronin	Orin, Carpenter's Daughter	60
36	1958	Love River		0
37	1958	The Judo Champ		0
38	1958	A Grain of Wheat	Numata Ichiko	0
39	1958	The Ladder of Success		0
40	1958	Musume no boken		0
41	1959	Goodbye, Hello	Kazuko Aota	60
42	1959	The Most Valuable Wife	Kyoko Nonomiya	75
43	1959	Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree		80
44	1959	The Gaijin		0
45	1959	The Cast-Off		60
46	1959	Jirocho Fuji	Okiku	68
47	1959	Beauty the Enemy	Keiko Yoshino	0
48	1959	Ripe and Marriageable	Shinobu Takaniwa	0
49	1959	Floating Weeds	Kayo	75
50	1959	Enchanted Princess	Princess Kinuta / Okuro	62
51	1960	A Woman's Testament		58
52	1960	The Rockabilly Lady	Mie Yashiro	0
53	1960	Afraid to Die	Yoshie Koizumi	60
54	1960	Bonchi	Ponta	70
55	1960	Victory and Defeat	Shizuko Abe	0
56	1960	The Priest and the Beauty	Kiyohime	30
57	1960	The False Student	Mutsuko Takagi	65
58	1961	Vagabonds from Badgerville	Tayori	70
59	1961	The Ginza Three Boys	Chikami Akiyama	0
60	1961	Marriageable Age		0
61	1961	Les Mesdemoiselles	Kasumi Fujisawa	60
62	1961	A Lustful Man	Yuugiridayuu	59
63	1961	Triangle Moods	Mariko Naoe	0
64	1961	A Design for Dying		60
65	1961	A Geisha's Diary	Koen	72
66	1961	The Radiant Prince	Aoi no ue	60
67	1961	A Wife Confesses	Ayako Takigawa	67
68	1962	Their Legacy		0
69	1962	The Temple of Wild Geese	Satoko Kirihara	63
70	1962	Stolen Pleasure	Masuko	68
71	1962	Closing Time	Kimiko Matsuno	0
72	1962	Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo		0
73	1962	Red Love, Green Love	Yukiko Oda	0
74	1962	A Night to Remember		60
75	1962	Diary of a Mad Old Man	Satsuko	65
76	1962	The Great Wall	Chiang-nu	60
77	1962	Elegant Beast	Yukie Mitani, the agent's accountant	71
78	1963	An Actor's Revenge	Namiji	66
79	1963	Girls Born in August		0
80	1963	The Third Will	Fumino Hamada	80
81	1963	Bury Me Deep	Mrs. Senzu	60
82	1963	She Came For Love	Toshiko Ikuta	0
83	1963	Bamboo Doll of Echizen	Tamae	76
84	1963	Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection	Yodogimi	70
85	1964	Hot Spring Doctress	Isao Shiozuki	0
86	1964	Love and Greed	Namiko Kawashiro	65
87	1964	A Public Benefactor	Mitsuko Fukumura	0
88	1964	The Frolic of the Beasts		0
89	1964	Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege	Yodogimi	62
90	1964	Manji	Mitsuko Tokumitsu	65
91	1964	Modae		0
92	1965	The Forest of No Escape		0
93	1965	Nami kage	Hinachiyo	0
94	1965	The Story of a Blind Woman		50
95	1965	I'll Cry Alone		0
96	1965	Seisaku's Wife	Okane	73
97	1965	Strange Triangle		60
98	1965	While Yet a Wife		0
99	1966	Irezumi	Otsuya	69
100	1966	The Virgin Witness	Chiei, Nun	0
101	1966	The Freezing Point	Natsue	68
102	1966	Wild Geese	Otama	50
103	1966	Red Angel	Nurse Sakura Nishi	76
104	1966	Shojo jutai	Aiko Takano	0
105	1967	Shroud of Snow	Taeko Sayama	70
106	1967	Two Wives		74
107	1967	When the Cookie Crumbles		60
108	1967	The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka	Kae	69
109	1968	The Saga of Tanegashima	Wakasa	50
110	1968	The Time of Reckoning		70
111	1968	The House of Wooden Blocks		70
112	1968	One Day at Summer's End	Mariko Nozaki	0
113	1969	Thousand Cranes	Mrs. Ota	83
114	1969	Blood End	Otsuta	62
115	1970	Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo	Umeno	68
116	1970	Spartan Education		0
117	1971	Tora-san's Shattered Romance	Yūko	72
118	1971	幻の殺意		0
119	1974	Onna no Kyūka		0
120	1975	Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director		68
121	1975	Onna no Natsu		0
122	1977	Onna no Katei		0
123	1985	Tokimeki no Gogo		0
124	1987	Princess from the Moon	Tayoshime	64
125	1991	The Tale of Genji		0
126	2005	Spring Snow		40
127	2013	Izakaya Moheji 2	Kihara Shino [New customer]	0
128	2015	Izakaya Moheji 4	Kihara Shino [New customer]	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Shin Heike Monogatari	Tokiwa Gozen	100
2	1972	愛と愛		0
3	1974	女の家庭		0
4	1975	Genroku Taiheiki	Someko	0
5	1975	女の夏		0
6	1985	ときめきの午後		0
7	1988	Takeda Shingen		75
8	1988	Takeda Shingen	Oi Fujin	75
9	1996	SMAP×SMAP	Bistro Guest	85
10	1998	Tokugawa Yoshinobu	Yoshiko Tokugawa	0
11	2011	Ohisama	Yoko Sudo (present day)	90