Fumiko Wakao was born in 1933. In 1951, he passed the new talent recruitment selection meeting (the fifth phase of the new talent), and made his screen debut the following year, and then starred in more than 250 movies. The well-known actresses who lived in the Showa era are known to everyone, and they are sure to impress in this era.
In the second year of appearing in nine consecutive films from his first appearance, the work that became the opportunity for the leap was "The Sexual Code of Ten Generations". Playing a high school student who has a gay vision for a female student of her predecessors, she has gained idol popularity. On the other hand, in "Only Garden Accompaniment", he was used as a famous craftsman Kenji Mizoguchi as a new maiko, and he also received good reviews for his acting skills.
Director Kenji Mizoguchi's posthumous work "Red Line Zone". The second number from the right is the ruo tail. In the center is Kyo Machiko
Three years later, in Mizoguchi's posthumous work "Red Line Zone", he enthusiastically portrayed one of the prostitutes who lived in Yoshihara before and after the enactment of the Prostitution Prevention Act. She challenged a dirty character who used the means of her guests to make offerings and provided interest to her partners to lend money, and after 5 years of her debut, she was baptized by a world-class master who did not allow for any compromise.
"Floating Grass" directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Kiyoyuki Kawaguchi, seduced by Kayo, the daughter of a traveling artist troupe
After that, Wakao also worked with a famous director, starring in Shochiku's only work shot by Yasujiro Shochi, "Floating Grass" (59 years old), playing a mischievous girl who was in a troupe of travel artists. Yuzo Kawashima's 3 works in the later years of the film are the protagonists in "The Temple of the Wild Goose" (62 years old), she played a mistress who made the temple abbot crazy, and in "The Quiet Beast" (62 years old), she played a single mother who held the men in her hands and offered them, freely playing a charming and unrestrained female image.
In Kenji Mizoguchi's "Only Garden Accompaniment" (53 years old), she played for the first time a maiko raised by the geisha Miyoharu (Kisui Chiyo, left). Eight years later, in Yuzo Kawashima's "Two Births of a Woman" (61 years old) directed by Yuzo Kawashima, she became an uncompromising geisha who had no art and could only sleep with her guests.
Yuzo Kawashima directed "The Quiet Beast"
The director who uses Wakao Fumiko the most is Oni Tsōmura Hozoku. Since the first collaboration in "Blue Sky Lady" in 1957, 20 works have been created in 12 years.
"Blue Sky Lady" tells the story of the refreshing Cinderella who is not inferior to the adversity and cheerful life of the young lady of the highest honor (59 years old) is a romantic comedy, in which she cutely portrays the young daughter of three sisters, who wants to escape the marriage with the family of the president of the trading company. In addition, in the suspenseful "Husband Sees from the Woman's Little Box" (64 years old), he plays the charming young wife who longs for love, and plays the nurse who sacrifices her body for the soldiers in the battlefield in the characteristic war movie "Red Angel" (66 years old).
Works directed by Hozo Morimura. From the left are "Blue Sky Lady" (57 years old), "The Highest Lady" (59 years old), "Red Angel" (66 years old)
"Swastika" (64 years old) and "Tattoo" (66 years old), which are based on Junichiro Tanizaki's novels, are masterpieces in which Mamura takes Wakao as the heroine and visualizes the erotic phenomenon of Tanizaki literature.
Masamura Hozo directs Swastika (64). Mitsuko Senkin, who plays the captive's wife, Enko (Kishida Tomoko, right).
The Wakao Fumiko Film Festival, which began on February 28 (Fri.), will feature a selection of 41 works from the works of famous actresses. In Kadokawa, Tokyo, the film Yurakucho was screened five times a day until April 2 (Thursday) (the first and second parts of "The Newlywed Diary," "Happy Morning" and "Shameful Dream," were released at the same time).
The above-mentioned "Tattoo", "Red Line Zone", "Woman Born Twice", "Floating Grass", "Temple of the Goose", "Delicate Beast" 6 works can be seen in the 4K restoration version, about "Tattoo" this time is the first time to be released.
"Husbands See in "Women's Little Box" (64 years old) directed by Yasuzo Masomura. On the left is Jiro Tamiya
Co-starred with Ichikawa Reizo in "Peony" (60 years old) directed by Kun Ichikawa
He played the role of Yukio Mishima, the underworld leader, in Hozo Masomura's "Breeze Boy" (60 years old), and his opponent role was played by Hozo Masomura
In addition, the work of famous craftsmen such as Konzaburo Yoshimura in "Echizen Takehihito" (63 years old), Kun Ichikawa in "Peony" (60 years old), legendary stars such as Kyo machiko, Fujiko Yamamoto, Raizo Ichikawa, and Jiro Tamiya, as well as the precious co-performance with the writer Yukio Mishima ("Frivolous Boy") are not to be missed.
Sometimes pitiful, sometimes charming, the posture of the world confuses the men of the world, showing the women a poignant and vivid way of life. It was a rare opportunity to see her 40 female figures on the big screen.
Starting from the left, "Tokyo Rice Ball Lady" directed by Shigeo Tanaka, "Ginza Story" directed by Megumi Inoue, and "Wife Confession" directed by Masamura Hozo