Akiko Wakabayashi Movies

An Ishiro Honda film.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

Based on the novel "Kyokatsu" ("Blackmail") by Ichiro Kashiwara.

1961 Japanese movie

Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa.

A newlywed couple moves into an apartment complex where each family faces everyday problems.

Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.

A young detective tries to determine whether a mysterious death was the result of murder or self-defense.

A rebellious heiress clashes with gangsters, dodges an arranged marriage, and unexpectedly falls for a principled lawyer as her father confronts past...

World Electric's top ad model disappears, throwing the company into disarray. A fortune-teller’s influence spreads through upper management,...

Comedy about a Japanese-American professor, a nuclear scientist, who returns to Japan to search for a typically subservient Japanese wife.

Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arrives, sending them on a whirlwind quest for...

In the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent...

Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to leave the world of the yakuza and live with his...

Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter of a wealthy trading company...