Writing

Tokuhei Wakao

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island poster
7.2

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

1956

A Maiko's Holiday poster
NR

Mitsuko, a maiko from Gion, met Haruki by chance and had a fun time with him, but is stunned when he discovers her secret. This is a love story that cheerfully portrays the life of a modern maiko.

A Maiko's Holiday

1961

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple poster
7.2

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

1955

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto poster
7.2

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

1954

Oshichi's Vegetable Store: The No.1 Girl at the Edo Festival poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Oshichi's Vegetable Store: The No.1 Girl at the Edo Festival

1960

A Night to Remember poster
7.5

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. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.

A Night to Remember

1962

Behind the camera

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island poster
7.2

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

1956

A Maiko's Holiday poster
NR

Mitsuko, a maiko from Gion, met Haruki by chance and had a fun time with him, but is stunned when he discovers her secret. This is a love story that cheerfully portrays the life of a modern maiko.

A Maiko's Holiday

1961

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple poster
7.2

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

1955

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto poster
7.2

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

1954

Oshichi's Vegetable Store: The No.1 Girl at the Edo Festival poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Oshichi's Vegetable Store: The No.1 Girl at the Edo Festival

1960

A Night to Remember poster
7.5

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. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.

A Night to Remember

1962

Newlywed of the First Section poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Newlywed of the First Section

1956

The Poem of the Blue Star poster
NR

Musical about the "Blue Star," a struggling jazz band led by pianist Takarada and trumpet player Takashima and their love interests. Done very much in the style of a Fox musical of the same 1940s, complete with an elaborate "History of Jazz" finale.

The Poem of the Blue Star

1960

Cheerful Detective poster
NR

After graduating from detective school, Achao and Entaro received their certificates and launched a private detective agency. One night, while investigating Otoyo, the wife of a soba shop owner, the two went to the basement of a theater and unexpectedly stumbled upon the murder of model Ranko Nemoto. Using the earring she was wearing as a clue, they began their investigation.

Cheerful Detective

1954

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1 poster
NR

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1

1957

Tactics of Love poster
NR

1955 Japanese movie

Tactics of Love

1955

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 poster
9.0

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2

1957

The Underworld poster
7.0

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuya himself has fallen in love, with a nurse after his recent hospital stay. As the gang grows more jealous of the favoritism Furuya shows Shoji, they decide to reveal Shoji's relationship with Natsue. But Furuya's affection for Shoji cannot be easily destroyed, even in the gang war that erupts.

The Underworld

1956

Song for a Bride poster
10.0

An Ishiro Honda film.

Song for a Bride

1958

Ginza Tomboy poster
NR

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

Ginza Tomboy

1960

Snowy Night Duel poster
NR

A yakuza returning from an island journey takes a stranger’s young child under his wing as he travels, gives up the woman he loves to his brother-in-arms, kills a corrupt gang boss in the name of justice and turns himself in.

Snowy Night Duel

1954

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kettō gofun mae

1953

The Entrapped Gangster poster
9.0

Crime melodrama about two detectives (Ikebe and Arashima) and one detective's trumpet-playing son (Sato) who become involved in a complex murder investigation.

The Entrapped Gangster

1959

The Tenth Game of New Salarymen poster
NR

A young salesman wins over a rival ink company while falling for the president’s daughter. Drawn into kendo rivalries and pressured to lose, he chooses integrity—earning both success and love.

The Tenth Game of New Salarymen

1961

Leader of the Bomb Girls poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Leader of the Bomb Girls

1959

花吹雪男祭り  poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

花吹雪男祭り 

1952

The Tenth Game of New Salarymen: Salaryman Ittoru poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

The Tenth Game of New Salarymen: Salaryman Ittoru

1962

Runaway Bride poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Runaway Bride

1956

Sakura sakazuki: gikyōdai poster
NR

Second movie in the Sakura Code series.

Sakura sakazuki: gikyōdai

1969

The Hoodlum and the Young Master poster
NR

Koji Tsuruta plays dual roles: Kyotaro, the young master of a pharmaceutical wholesaler in Osaka, and Ken, a street thug in Tokyo.

The Hoodlum and the Young Master

1956

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten

1962

風雲児 poster
NR

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a man protecting jujitsu in the twilight of Kikyōgahara!

風雲児

1951

Engagement Ring poster
NR

A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds his lost ring. Their growing affection challenges class boundaries and family expectations, leading to a sincere romance that defies convention.

Engagement Ring

1956

Hiren tsubaki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hiren tsubaki

1953

Salarygirl Book: Idle Talk, Back-Biting Chatter, Senseless Retorts poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Salarygirl Book: Idle Talk, Back-Biting Chatter, Senseless Retorts

1960

So Deep in My Heart poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

So Deep in My Heart

1955

Salarygirl Story: Saucy  Staff poster
NR

Two young women start their first jobs at a construction firm.

Salarygirl Story: Saucy Staff

1960

Structure of Hate poster
7.0

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.

Structure of Hate

1961

Wedding Season poster
NR

Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a number of women, including his true love, Inako Arima.

Wedding Season

1954

Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3 poster
NR

Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3

1954

Anmitsu hime: Amakara shiro no maki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Anmitsu hime: Amakara shiro no maki

1954

Last Days of the Samurai poster
9.0

Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, and the events of the two days before are depicted as a tragic romance between one of the ronins, Jurozaemon Isogai, and Omino. An adaptation of Seika Mayama play "Genroku Chusingura, the Last Day of Oishi", which tells about the torments of life and death of samurai living in feudal times.

Last Days of the Samurai

1957

Anmitsu Princess: Story of the Magic Competition poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Anmitsu Princess: Story of the Magic Competition

1954

大江戸出世双六 poster
NR

Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she accidentally broke a plate gifted by Lord Ieyasu. Tired of the strict samurai service, Tasuke moved to the Genbei tenements and opened a fish shop. This tenement housed various characters, including the landlord's daughter Osen who had a crush on Tasuke, the midwife Okan, the blind masseur Oyone and her husband, the carpenter-loving couple Yoshigorō and Ohama, the rōnin Takeuchi Yogoemon, and the siblings Ochika and Shin'nosuke who cared for their sick mother.

大江戸出世双六

1955

Kenkagarasu poster
NR

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

Kenkagarasu

1954