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1. Floating Weeds (1959)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Ganjirô Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura, Ayako Wakao
Votes: 8,997
2. Street of Shame (1956)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure
Votes: 4,877
3. An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi
Votes: 2,875
4. Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
Not Rated | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?
Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shintarô Katsu, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa
Votes: 2,837
5. A Geisha (1953)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 2,373
6. The Red Angel (1966)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yûsuke Kawazu, Ranko Akagi
Votes: 1,894
7. Irezumi (1966)
86 min | Drama
A seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto, Kei Satô
Votes: 1,352
8. Swastika (1964)
91 min | Drama, Romance
A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi, Yûsuke Kawazu
Votes: 1,123
9. A Wife Confesses (1961)
91 min | Drama, Mystery
Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband's approval, and this complicates the trial.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Mabuchi
Votes: 760
10. Seisaku's Wife (1965)
93 min | Drama, Romance, War
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Takahiro Tamura, Nobuo Chiba, Yûzô Hayakawa
Votes: 672
11. Afraid to Die (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Crime
Takeo is a young yakuza who renounces his former criminal activities after being released from prison. But sometimes escaping the past is not so easy.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Yukio Mishima, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 629
12. Princess from the Moon (1987)
121 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the original tale, though, ... See full summary »
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Kôji Ishizaka
Votes: 615
13. We'll Meet Again (1957)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his ex-secretary.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki, Kenji Sugawara, Ryûji Shinagawa
Votes: 526
14. The Graceful Brute (1962)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Yûnosuke Itô, Hisano Yamaoka, Yûko Hamada
Votes: 402
15. Haru no yuki (2005)
150 min | Drama, History, Romance
Early 20th century Japan. Kiyoaki Matsugae, a young aristocrat falls in love with a girl he grew up with; Satoko Ayakura, who is to be married to a prince of the royal family.
Director: Isao Yukisada | Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yûko Takeuchi, Sôsuke Takaoka, Mitsuhiro Oikawa
Votes: 351
16. The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama
Japan's timeless tale of honor and revenge, the Loyal 47 Ronin is the true story of group of samurai who became ronin (masterless samurai) after their Lord was forced to commit seppuku (... See full summary »
Director: Kunio Watanabe | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Shintarô Katsu, Kôji Tsuruta, Raizô Ichikawa
Votes: 343
17. Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
132 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Takako Irie, Daisuke Itô, Kyôko Kagawa, Matsutarô Kawaguchi
Votes: 324
18. Shinobi No Mono 3: Resurrection (1963)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Crime, Action
When we last saw the intrepid ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuo Mori | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Saburô Date, Yôichi Funaki
Votes: 235
19. The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
99 min | Drama, History
The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hideko Takamine, Yûnosuke Itô
Votes: 223
20. Punishment Room (1956)
96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Nothing less than a phenomenal, astonishing and pioneering film. This spectacle of an angry, ego-driven youth tormented by his own emotional impotence, low self-esteem and resentment towards his parents.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keizô Kawasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Ayako Wakao
Votes: 223
21. The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Satoko is a mistress by trade, or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi.
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Masao Mishima, Isao Kimura, Kuniichi Takami
Votes: 220
22. Bamboo Doll of Echizen (1963)
103 min | Drama, Romance
Haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Junichiro Yamashita, Tamao Nakamura, Ganjirô Nakamura
Votes: 192
23. Women Are Born Twice (1961)
99 min | Drama
Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. One of them, the mature Tsutsui, proposes to set a step to a change of exclusivity.
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Sô Yamamura, Jun Fujimaki, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 191
24. Kôshoku ichidai otoko (1961)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
A mans' escapades concerning sex and love.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Tamao Nakamura, Michiko Ai
Votes: 169
25. Tora-san's Shattered Romance (1971)
89 min | Comedy
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Ayako Wakao, Chieko Baishô, Gin Maeda
Votes: 156
26. A Woman's Testament (1960)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Three stories about modern women. The first works in a nightclub and plans to marry the boss. The second is used by a real estate agent as a lure for customers. The third is a retired geisha who waits to be reunited with her jailed lover.
Directors: Kon Ichikawa, Yasuzô Masumura, Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Sachiko Hidari, Junko Kanô
Votes: 153
27. Musashi (2003– )
Adventure, Drama, Romance
Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi forces, but eludes the enemy as... See full summary »
Stars: Ebizô Ichikawa, Ryôko Yonekura, Isao Hashizume, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi
Votes: 130
28. Bonchi (1960)
105 min | Drama
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business,... See full summary »
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Tamao Nakamura, Mitsuko Kusabue, Machiko Kyô
Votes: 122
29. Saikô shukun fujin (1959)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the Japanese spy service.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Eiji Funakoshi, Seiji Miyaguchi
Votes: 106
30. Bridge of Japan (1956)
112 min | Drama, Romance
For his 1st color film, Ichikawa did an Edo era story of two geishas scheming against each other for control of the Nihonbashi bridge area, and vying for the affections of a young doctor.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Chikage Awashima, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Ryûji Shinagawa
Votes: 104
31. Diary of a Mad Old Man (1962)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
A wealthy old man, Utsugi has recently suffered a stroke which has paralyzed his right hand and significantly reduced his quality of life. He currently operates a large household with a ... See full summary »
Director: Keigo Kimura | Stars: Sô Yamamura, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki, Chieko Higashiyama
Votes: 94
32. A False Student (1960)
94 min | Drama
After failing the entrance exam for university for the fourth time, a young man pretends to be a student to avoid the shame of his family.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Jerry Fujio, Jun Fujimaki, Eiji Funakoshi
Votes: 89
33. Otto ga mita 'Onna no kobako' yori (1964)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Jirô Tamiya, Keizô Kawasaki, Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 85
34. Jirôchô Fuji (1959)
105 min | Drama, History
An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made "the ultimate Jirocho movie" about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area.
Director: Kazuo Mori | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Shintarô Katsu, Jun Negami
Votes: 85
35. Tengu-tô (1969)
102 min | Drama, War
Recounts the events that the Mito Tengu Group undertook when they attempted to overthrow the Shogunate during the Bakumatsu Period.
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ayako Wakao, Gô Katô, Yukiyo Toake
Votes: 83
36. Hyoten (1966)
96 min | Drama
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Yasuda, Eiji Funakoshi, Kei Yamamoto
Votes: 79
37. Tsuma futari (1967)
94 min | Drama, Mystery
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Mariko Okada, Kôji Takahashi, Takao Itô
Votes: 77
38. The Great Wall (1962)
200 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a ... See full summary »
Director: Shigeo Tanaka | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ken Utsui, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Votes: 68
39. Tadare (1962)
88 min | Drama
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adaptation by Kaneto Shindo, Masumura Yasuzo directs. A battle of woman competing for the same man. Masuko (Ayako Wakao) is the number one ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Jirô Tamiya, Yaeko Mizutani, Eiji Funakoshi
Votes: 67
40. Maboroshi no uma (1955)
90 min | Drama
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
Director: Kôji Shima | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Yukihiko Iwatare, Akihiko Yusa, Yoshirô Kitahara
Votes: 56
41. Nyokei kazoku (1963)
111 min | Drama
Director: Kenji Misumi | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Machiko Kyô, Jirô Tamiya, Miwa Takada
Votes: 49
42. Thousand Cranes (1969)
96 min | Drama, Romance
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Machiko Kyô, Mikijirô Hira, Eiko Azusa
Votes: 48
43. Glow of the Firefly (1958)
123 min | Drama, Romance
Tose got incredibly lucky to go from being the peasants' daughter to the owner of a famous inn. But her husband doesn't support her, they have no children of their own, and there is unrest in the country that threatens their business.
Director: Heinosuke Gosho | Stars: Chikage Awashima, Junzaburô Ban, Ayako Wakao, Miki Mori
Votes: 42
44. Takeda Shingen (1988– )
Drama
Chronicles the life of Takeda Shingen (born as Takeda Harunobu), ruler of Kai Province in feudal Japan and one of the greatest warlords in Japan's tumultuous Age of Warring States.
Stars: Hiro Komura, Misako Konno, Kiichi Nakai, Kanzaburô Nakamura
Votes: 41
45. Tsumiki no hako (1968)
84 min | Drama
Masumura's 40th film, for which he collaborated on the script, shows plot irrationality perhaps due to the newspaper serial original, perhaps to the adolescent behavior he portrays. The ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Ken Ogata, Kayo Matsuo, Eiko Azusa
Votes: 38
46. Anchin to Kiyohime (1960)
80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Kôji Shima | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Yôko Uraji, Akihiko Katayama
Votes: 37
47. A Night to Remember (1962)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten.
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Jirô Tamiya, Keizô Kawasaki, Kyôko Enami
Votes: 36
48. Anata to watashi no aikotoba: Sayônara, konnichiwa (1959)
86 min | Drama, Comedy
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Machiko Kyô, Shin Saburi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Votes: 34
49. Hanran (1959)
97 min | Drama
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Shin Saburi, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki, Junko Kanô
Votes: 34
50. Nureta futari (1968)
82 min | Drama
A Masumura Yasuzo film about a love affair starring Wakao Ayako. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Etsushi Takahashi, Mayumi Nagisa
Votes: 31