Ayako Wakao
Movie Actress
Movie actress who has appeared in over 100 films, 20 of which were directed by Yasuzo Masumura. She won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mainichi Film Awards in 2006.
She started off as an actress contracted to Daiei Studios in 1951 as part of the fifth New Face group.
She is well known for appearing in Yasujiro Ozu's Floating Weeds in 1959.
She was married to Kisho Kurokawa from 1983 to 2007.
She acted alongside Machiko Kyo in Floating Weeds.