Wakayo Matsumura
Known For & Full Filmography31 Titles
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Student Nurse
A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats himself in secret and breaks off his engagement rather than risk his fiancée’s future, even as he confronts the irresponsible patient who infected him—testing his ethics, pride, and capacity for sacrifice.
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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...
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Oteru
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.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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!
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A musical entertainment piece centered on a traveling women’s sword-fighting troupe.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart. Koji Umeya, who was working part-time at a shop, was able to see the unparallel rag, and brought her to the cheerful site. Furthermore, Kenji will cause serious injury to the spot. Koji who came to the end of her uniform and started her bizarre living in Izu villa home.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Kazuo Mori's Wife
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.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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?
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
"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."
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
1960 Japanese movie
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Yumi worked at a small snack bar called Bacchus, tucked away in a corner of the city. Before long, she had gathered her own entourage—three men named Takeshi, Ken, and Toru. Convinced that the true essence of youth lay in taking risks, Yumi’s boyfriend, Takeshi, dreamed of taking the helm of a yacht and sailing off to unknown lands. Ken, a factory worker from a small-town workshop, fantasized about creating a guerrilla radio station that played nothing but the new rock sounds—the shared language of youth. Meanwhile, Toru, a college student who proudly styled himself as a revolutionary. The trio began saving money as if to make their dreams tangible. They entered an endurance contest but they were eliminated. With a goal of raising 3 million yen by the following summer, their prospects looked bleak. In the days that followed, each arrived at the same conclusion: they could exploit Yumi’s exceptional beauty and striking sexy physique by launching an alluring honey-trap scheme.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
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.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable...