Ayako Wakao

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of ...

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a ...

In this elegant proto-feminist shocker from Yasuzo Masumuro, a woman forced into prostitution wreaks her spidery revenge. A mysterious tattoo ...

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide ...

A son hoards money stolen from the talent agency employing him, but his efforts are in vain when the money goes missing under odd circumstances.

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

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position ...

A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit ...

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 ...

The personal tales of various sex workers who occupy a Japanese brothel.

In the post-war Gion district of Kyoto, the geisha Miyoharu agrees to apprentice the 16 year-old Eiko, whose mother was a former geisha who had ...