daqve

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Tokyo, Japan

Looking at Ayako Wakao's 1950s ad campaign for National, it is reasonable to assume it was the unspoken motivation for the brothers in Yasujiro Ozu’s “Good Morning” (1959). 若尾文子が1950年代にナショナルのテレビの紙広告に起用されていたことを考えれば、小津安二郎の『お早よう』(1959年)で兄弟が欲しがるテレビがナショナル製であるのも、想像に難くない。

Ayako Wakao (Miss National) for National radios and TVs.
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Orson Welles favored his role in “The Third Man” (1949) because he appeared only in the third act, yet everyone talked about him in the first two. In Yasujiro Ozu’s “Good Morning” (1959), that role was filled by a 14-inch National Television (Model T-14 CIZ) made by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co

ナショナルテレビ
14型(モデルT-14 CIZ)
松下電器産業株式会社

大映の若尾文子 Ayako Wakao from Daiei ナショナルラジオ ラジオは部屋ごとに! A radio for each room! National radio model DX-350 from 1952/1953. In 1952, Ayako Wakao was 19 and in her first year working on films with Daiei. Included in a current M+ exhibit in Hong Kong: www.mplus.org.hk/en/collectio...

大映の若尾文子
Ayako Wakao from Daiei

ラジオは部屋ごとに!
A radio for each room!

National radio model DX-350 from 1952/1953.

In 1952, Ayako Wakao was 19 and in her first year working on films with Daiei.

松下電器産業株式会社
ナショナルラジオ
DX-350型

ラジオは部屋ごとに!
僕は音楽、私はドラマ、いやクイズだと1台では当然奪い合いはつきもの。お宅でもラジオをもう1台、できるなら部屋ごとに・・・・・そのラジオにはぜひナショナルを!

Wakao Ayako and Mizutani Yutaka in Izakaya Moheji 2, a TV special aired in 2013 on TBS. Wakao would appear again in the 4th installment of the series in 2015, to this day, her last role on the small/big screen. She was 80 years old at the time, but she had lost none of her charm or aura...

When Andrei Tarkovsky was preparing for the filming of "Solaris", he had hoped to use the Expo '70 in Osaka as a filming location. However, delays prevented the start of filming in time, so Tokyo in 1971 became the Russia of the future.

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