Eiji Funakoshi

続々十代の性典

Eiichi Koishi

Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

十七才は一度だけ

Yoshio Inoue

Miwa Takada, Yoshihiko Aoyama

Yûreitô

Kôzô Saeki

Toshiko Hatori, Eiji Funakoshi

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

螢の光

Kazuo Mori

Kenji Sugawara, Ayako Wakao

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

赤線の灯は消えず

Shigeo Tanaka

Machiko Kyō, Hitomi Nozoe

野火

Kon Ichikawa

Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

偽大学生

Yasuzō Masumura

Ayako Wakao, Jun Fujimaki

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

白い巨塔

Satsuo Yamamoto

Jirō Tamiya, Eijirō Tōno

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

忠臣蔵

Kunio Watanabe

Kazuo Hasegawa, Yataro Kurokawa

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.

古都憂愁　姉いもうと

Kenji Misumi

Shiho Fujimura, Kiku Wakayagi

A Japanese film

あなたと私の合言葉　さよなら、今日は

Kon Ichikawa

Ayako Wakao, Shin Saburi

The Graceful Brute

Yūzō Kawashima

Ayako Wakao, Yūnosuke Itō

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.

An Actor's Revenge

Kon Ichikawa

Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them.

あにいもうと

Mikio Naruse

Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.

婦系図

Kenji Misumi

Raizō Ichikawa, Michiyo Kogure

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.

爛

Yasuzō Masumura

Ayako Wakao, Jirō Tamiya

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe (and renowned director in his own right) Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko (Ayako Wakao) is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, ... but finds out that he has a wife. When Masuko’s niece arrives the competition further ratchets up. (Also occasionally known in English as “Inflamation”)