Noriko Maki
Actor · b. 1940 · Xinjing, Manchukuo, China
Movies19
Movie7.9DramaWidower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Movie7.0ActionCrimeA 1970 crime film.
Movie7.5CrimeActionFierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Movie10.0ActionCrimeAround Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) who specializes in the women, their problems and troubles. He has saved many a girl from blandishments of pimps, makes customers pay up and women play straight. So he is called 'the woman's police-man' and he takes his job seriously. One day, Chiyoko (Yukiyo Toake), a former hostess, comes to him. Her husband has been murdered and she wants help. The man had been a college classmate and Kagari decides to do what he can. In his investigation he overturns a whole nest of intrigue. Men he had thought irreproachable turn out to be corrupt; solid citizens are seen as the worst kind of scoundrels. Until now, Kagari has specialized in women and their problems. But, realizing the real state of affairs, he rolls up his sleeves for a good cleaning- up-at the same time discovering the murderer of his friend.
Movie6.0RomanceDramaThe backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
MovieRomanceComedyA love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaka.
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Movie6.2ComedyA story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Movie1963 Japanese movie
MovieComedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.
Movie7.1DramaPoverty-stricken sisters reach the age when they start attracting marriage proposals. They must decide between marrying for love or money, but their ambitions clash when they both fall for the same man.
Movie8.0DramaCrime
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MovieDramaJapanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi.
Movie1963 Japanese movie
Movie1962 Japanese movie
Movie1961 Japanese movie
Movie8.0ActionCrimeKagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and rushes to Tokyo International Airport to meet her. When he arrives she is gone. At the bar he learns that Tabuchi, a steady customer, had been quite friendly with Sawako and may know something. Tabuchi claims he knows nothing and Kagari lets the matter drop. Over time Kagari learns from Takijima, a businessman, that Sawako is in a hospital in Yokohama. Takijima explains that he found her in Singapore working as a street girl and brought her back to Japan. Sawako had lost her memory after being subjected to narcotics. Kagari swears to find the person responsible.
Movie9.0Drama