Masao Wakahara

Acting

Masao Wakahara

Born

1917-01-01 (109)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Dreaming People poster
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Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marrying Toshio (Toshio Hosokawa), the son of Zenpei Hamaguchi (Yoshito Yamaji), for her obligation. He encouraged the unhappy Yuriko and taught her how to make her marriage with Toshio a happy one. He makes a fresh start as an architect under the care of Ryosuke Shibata (Jiro Yanagi), who had taken care of his father, but Ryosuke's daughter Sumiko (Yoko Katsuragi) has feelings for him. Fujie Kakimoto's (Sadako Sawamura) son Koichi (Eiji Wakasugi) came to know about Sumiko and asked her to marry him after coming to Shinya to ask for her design. Knowing that Shinya's love for Yuriko would not be easily wiped away, Sumiko decided to marry Koichi, who had a bad leg. Shinya watches the beautiful bond between Koichi and Sumiko and decides to forget his past and move forward on the path to self-perfection.

Dreaming People

1953

Dare ni koisen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dare ni koisen

1948

Face in the Dark poster
NR

Japanese suspense film.

Face in the Dark

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

In Case of One Woman

1956

No artwork available
NR

This film depicts the fighting spirit of the frontline troops on Guadalcanal.

Human Bullet Corps

1944

Tekirei san'nin musume poster
NR

The Matsukawa family lived modestly as a close-knit trio of mother and daughters, relying on the income from the younger daughter, Motoko, who worked at a Western-style clothing store in Ginza, and their meager savings. This film was adapted from Nakano Minoru's original work "Otohime-sama Gojouiki" (The Landing of Princess Otohime), serialized in Lucky magazine.

Tekirei san'nin musume

1951

Film credits

1950s · 26 titles

Dreaming People poster
NR

Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marrying Toshio (Toshio Hosokawa), the son of Zenpei Hamaguchi (Yoshito Yamaji), for her obligation. He encouraged the unhappy Yuriko and taught her how to make her marriage with Toshio a happy one. He makes a fresh start as an architect under the care of Ryosuke Shibata (Jiro Yanagi), who had taken care of his father, but Ryosuke's daughter Sumiko (Yoko Katsuragi) has feelings for him. Fujie Kakimoto's (Sadako Sawamura) son Koichi (Eiji Wakasugi) came to know about Sumiko and asked her to marry him after coming to Shinya to ask for her design. Knowing that Shinya's love for Yuriko would not be easily wiped away, Sumiko decided to marry Koichi, who had a bad leg. Shinya watches the beautiful bond between Koichi and Sumiko and decides to forget his past and move forward on the path to self-perfection.

Dreaming People

1953

Face in the Dark poster
NR

Japanese suspense film.

Face in the Dark

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

In Case of One Woman

1956

Tekirei san'nin musume poster
NR

The Matsukawa family lived modestly as a close-knit trio of mother and daughters, relying on the income from the younger daughter, Motoko, who worked at a Western-style clothing store in Ginza, and their meager savings. This film was adapted from Nakano Minoru's original work "Otohime-sama Gojouiki" (The Landing of Princess Otohime), serialized in Lucky magazine.

Tekirei san'nin musume

1951

The Singing Tireless Town poster
NR

Backstage friendships and rivalries flare as dancers Akiko and Haruko compete for roles, clash with disapproving parents, and juggle new romances. A failed scheme to push Haruko out forces truths into the open, bringing the troupe back together as they head toward their next show.

The Singing Tireless Town

1957

Jirocho in Disgrace poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jirocho in Disgrace

1954

Toki no teizo: Sōshūban poster
NR

A silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished expression of a woman twisted by torment.

Toki no teizo: Sōshūban

1952

Zac Zac Girl poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zac Zac Girl

1951

Utsukushiki taka poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Utsukushiki taka

1954

The Bells of Nagasaki poster
7.0

The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

The Bells of Nagasaki

1950

Sisters at the Hot Springs poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sisters at the Hot Springs

1956

Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido poster
NR

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure.

Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

1953

Minami kaze poster
NR

1951 Japanese movie

Minami kaze

1951

Passion Fire poster
NR

The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida Takayama, the district head Shimizu Uzen fled to Edo. Local officials like Yoshida Bunsuke and Yoshizumi Hironoshin showed their allegiance by welcoming them. The commander at the time, Umemura Hayami, was a former member of the Tengu Party and had previously been pursued in the town. He took refuge in a restaurant named Kabuya, and owing to a tip-off from a woman named Oraku, he was almost captured for her lover, Yoshizumi. Oraku and Yoshizumi probably feared revenge from that previous encounter, but Umemura had come back to Hida because he couldn't forget Oraku.

Passion Fire

1952

No artwork available
NR

A private detective chases a female pickpocket into a film studio and dashes through the sets. With special appearances by a star-studded cast.

The Actress and the Detective

1950

Sisters poster
NR

Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji), and the third was Mihato (Hibari Misora). Mihato was still a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, but she considered herself as mature as her older sisters. Mihato knows that Tsugumi is friends with Ippei Yaguchi (Masao Wakahara) and acts as a love messenger between them, but she didn't know that Takako is also in love with Ippei...

Sisters

1953

Don't Make a Mistake! poster
NR

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

Don't Make a Mistake!

1958

Carmen's Innocent Love poster
5.2

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Carmen's Innocent Love

1952

Morishige, where are you going? poster
NR

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow, is vividly depicted to the tune of "Moonlit Desert" in this humanistic drama full of pathos, starring Hisaya Morishige.

Morishige, where are you going?

1956

On Wings of Love poster
10.0

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope.

On Wings of Love

1957

お月様には悪いけど poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

お月様には悪いけど

1954

Ah,  Youth poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ah, Youth

1951

Aiyoku no sabaki poster
NR

Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and devotes herself to the rehabilitation of a delinquent girl, gradually finding her job at the institution more worthwhile than the marriage recommended by her parents. Meanwhile, inside Inokichi's heart a flame of unknowing love for the single-minded Motoko begins to burn...

Aiyoku no sabaki

1953

Omoide no borero poster
NR

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Omoide no borero

1950

Rumba of Passion poster
NR

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Rumba of Passion

1950

I Yearn for Father poster
NR

Yuji Makita (Wakahara) came to a hot spring port town as a singer who plays the guitar. Thirteen years ago, Sanae Shimura (Miyake) was in love with him, and now Sanae works at a bar in Tokyo to support her daughter Emiko (Misorah) and elderly father Daiseki (Ryuji Kita). While waiting for her mother to return, Emiko often goes to the dock and sings a song. Yuji finds out that Emiko is his own daughter, because the song she sings was once written by Yuji himself and was known only to Sanae...

I Yearn for Father

1951

1940s · 32 titles

Dare ni koisen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dare ni koisen

1948

No artwork available
NR

This film depicts the fighting spirit of the frontline troops on Guadalcanal.

Human Bullet Corps

1944

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mother

1948

Farewell Tango poster
8.0

A heartrending love story between an aspiring singer and a unnamed composer. Sobbing love songs sung by a heroine Mieko Takemine.

Farewell Tango

1949

As If To Kill poster
NR

Not far from Yurakucho, on the riverbank, stands the Nishida Clinic, with signs advertising internal medicine, surgery, and gynecology. The examination room of the clinic’s director, Dr. Heizo Nishida, is frequented by mysterious women and black-marketeers. Toshio Shimamura, president of “Seiso Shinpo”, takes notice of this. Ayako Toda, who lost her parents during repatriation and was taken in by Shimamura is ordered to extort 50,000 yen from Nishida, but in the process meets his son Ippei.

As If To Kill

1948

Suiren fujin to bara musume poster
NR

When pickpocketing runs rampant, detectives step up their game. Yazaki, a detective at the Ohira Private Detective Agency who graduated from the University of Tokyo, bumps into a woman on a street corner. The woman turns out to be Asako, a female detective who works at his uncle Ryutaro’s private detective agency. Asako lives with her stepmother, Kiyoe, a young widow. The mother worries about her daughter’s marriage prospects, while the daughter worries about her mother’s job situation.

Suiren fujin to bara musume

1948

Good-Bye! poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Good-Bye!

1949

No artwork available
NR

The innocent devotion of a woman eagerly awaiting her lover’s return from the war touches people’s hearts.

Kimi ka to omohite

1946

Doyō fujin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Doyō fujin

1948

No artwork available
NR

1946 Japanese movie.

Ojōsama o te o

1946

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hanayome no shōtai

1947

No artwork available
NR

A film depicting the duties of a detective and the anguish of human compassion.

Female Prisoner #36

1947

No artwork available
NR

A romantic musical film based on hit records of the time.

Tokyo Night

1947

Woman on the Night Train poster
NR

Mysterious incidents occur one after another on the express train as it plows through the dark night on the railroad tracks! The first woman is robbed! The second woman is almost killed! The third woman attempts suicide!

Woman on the Night Train

1947

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Machi no ninkisha

1946

Who Is the Criminal? poster
NR

1945 Japanese movie

Who Is the Criminal?

1945

Saigo no kikyō poster
NR

1945 Japanese movie

Saigo no kikyō

1945

No artwork available
NR

A war propaganda film centered on the mobilization of student soldiers.

Twelve Hours Before Departure

1943

No artwork available
NR

Yamagami, who had been working as an engineer at an automobile factory in Manchuria, returns to postwar Tokyo for the first time in five years and is devastated to learn that his former lover, Mitsuko, had become the wife of Professor Oikawa. Now a married woman, Mitsuko is shocked to learn that Yamagami, who had been falsely reported as dead, is still alive. Conflicted about her feelings, Mitsuko confesses everything to her husband.

Thunderstorm

1946

No artwork available
NR

Depicts the bereaved families of soldiers sent to the front.

Fushi sakura

1944

The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow poster
NR

Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers from tuberculosis, feels an unbearable love for Akiko, who takes great care of him during his visits. Because of his worries about his illness he doesn't want Akiko to be as unhappy as he is. Akiko loves Hidaka but there was one question. Is it because one side of Akiko has the essence of a woman living in an era when she's alone? Or, maybe it's because she nods to the reality of life...

The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow

1948

Butai wa mawaru poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Butai wa mawaru

1948

Convent Bride poster
NR

1946 japanese movie.

Convent Bride

1946

The Day England Falls poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Day England Falls

1942

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Even Parting is Enjoyable

1945

At the Time Men Have Seen Blood poster
NR

A group of men obsessed with oil gather in a remote oil field region. Ichiro Kitazawa (Tatsuzaki) was one of them. He had a daughter-in-law named Harue Saijo (Takasugi), but he felt no affection for her. Ichiro, however, had spent the inheritance Harue had inherited from her father to find oil. Ichiro was now being bled by Butterfly (Hidaka), an eccentric female waitress at the Kinryu-tei. Harue took a train one day to visit Ichiro. She then befriended a man called Ken Matsuki (Dainikata), who had saved her from a crisis. Matsuki was a friend of Kitazawa, a man who was also passionate about the oil search.

At the Time Men Have Seen Blood

1949

The Hopeful Family poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Hopeful Family

1947

No artwork available
NR

A story about volunteering in the rural silk farming industry. Recommended by the Ministry of Education.

Fusetsu no haru

1943

New Wives’ Meeting poster
NR

Keiko, Kirie, and Toshi, a trio of close friends, go their separate ways after graduation, vowing to hold a “New Wives’ Meeting” once they are all married.

New Wives’ Meeting

1949

Aru yo no seppun poster
NR

The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war.

Aru yo no seppun

1946

Shooting Star poster
9.0

Based on that testimony, an investigation is launched in the entertainment district, and through a brief conversation between Toda and Nanako at the cabaret "R-Red," it becomes apparent that her lover, Kaneda, is suspicious. Toda and Kaneda are, in fact, members of the gang currently being frantically pursued by the Metropolitan Police. Their leader is a ruthless man named Yoshio Matsui, known as "Tetsu the Murakumo," who has his mistress, Aiko, working as a singer at this cabaret. Kaneda, using his leg injury caused by Detective Mishima as leverage, demands a large sum of money from Tetsu, but is instead met with gunfire from Tetsu's gang. Upon hearing the gunshots, Officer Fujita, who was patrolling nearby, gives chase. As Kaneda lies dying, he reveals the truth before drawing his last breath. With this near-confirmation, Fujita puts out an all-points bulletin for Tetsu.

Shooting Star

1949

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Passion to Soar

1941