Wakayo Matsumura

Acting

Wakayo Matsumura

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 16 titles

Hot Sand poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hot Sand

1960

Just Barely poster
NR

Sawakichi carried on his late father’s legacy, devoting himself to training in the art of seduction while searching for the secret scroll, but he fell just short of success. What is this secret scroll?

Just Barely

1960

Sentimental Mobsters poster
7.0

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!

Sentimental Mobsters

1963

Seisaku's Wife poster
7.3

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Seisaku's Wife

1965

Closing Time poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Closing Time

1962

The Frolic of the Beasts poster
9.0

Young student Koji attacks literary critic Ippei out of a desperate love for Ippei's neglected wife, Yuko. Following his release from prison, the three are bound together in a tense and destructive co-existence.

The Frolic of the Beasts

1964

Record of a  Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy

1968

Black Test Car poster
7.1

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Black Test Car

1962

Shroud of Snow poster
7.6

1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.

Shroud of Snow

1967

情熱の詩人啄木 poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

情熱の詩人啄木

1962

Ashita kara otona da poster
NR

1960 Japanese movie

Ashita kara otona da

1960

Okoto and Sasuke poster
8.0

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

Okoto and Sasuke

1961

I'll Cry Alone poster
10.0

"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-marry she insists he either wed or stop seeing her. Returning home, she again meets the man she first loved and for a time thinks of married happiness."

I'll Cry Alone

1965

The Forest of No Escape poster
9.0

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

The Forest of No Escape

1965

Prize of Flesh poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prize of Flesh

1961

誘拐 poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

誘拐

1962

1950s · 14 titles

Women's Classroom poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Women's Classroom

1959

The Moon Over the Ruined Castle poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Moon Over the Ruined Castle

1954

The Big Four of the Kodokan poster
NR

A passionate young man who risks his life for love and judo and the innocent young woman who adores him face off against an evil judoka at Chidorigafuchi.

The Big Four of the Kodokan

1955

Kidnapper poster
NR

A series of kidnappings is occurring right under the authorities’ noses as they desperately pursue the culprits. Could the typewritten ransom note reveal the culprit?

Kidnapper

1955

Brother and Sister poster
6.3

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.

Brother and Sister

1953

Lightning poster
7.3

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.

Lightning

1952

Miss Teacher poster
NR

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her is… A coming-of-age story of laughter and tears that unfolds at this all-girls’ school, revolving around a rookie teacher.

Miss Teacher

1955

Utau onna kengeki poster
NR

A musical entertainment piece centered on a traveling women’s sword-fighting troupe.

Utau onna kengeki

1953

The Most Valuable Wife poster
8.0

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...

The Most Valuable Wife

1959

Punishment Room poster
6.9

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

Punishment Room

1956

The Wild Geese poster
6.7

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

The Wild Geese

1953

Confessions of a Gynecologist poster
NR

A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable...

Confessions of a Gynecologist

1950

Disobedience poster
8.0

A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.

Disobedience

1958

Shojohou poster
NR

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that has endured the winds and snow of love! Eisuke Taniguchi (Shimizu), president of Towa Electric Works, has three beautiful daughters. The eldest, Kozue (Todoroki), is an intelligent and dynamic modern girl, the second, Yoko (Otowa), is a modest girl with Japanese tastes, and the third, Hanayo (Wakayama), is a mischievous girl who has not yet lost her schoolgirl temperament. All three have feelings for Kiichiro Matsuzaki (Uehara), the president of a magazine company. He was married to Kozue, the eldest daughter, by agreement between their parents, but it was Yoko whom he loved, so he asked her to end her engagement to him.

Shojohou

1950