Movies: Noriko Maki

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her....

A 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....

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere....

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The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer....

Japanese 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,...

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1962 Japanese movie...

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked propriet...

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Manao Horiuchi movie...

1963 Japanese movie...

A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors...

A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaki....

Around 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, m...

Eleventh film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series....

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A 1970 crime film....

Kagari (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 ...

Japanese comedy film....