Akiko Wakabayashi Movies

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

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

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

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa.

1962 Japanese movie

The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be...

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

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

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

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

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

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

1963 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...

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...

1961 Japanese movie

Episodic, globe-trotting quasi-mondo focused on women of the East.

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...