Noriko Maki

Acting

Noriko Maki

Born

1940-03-28 (86)

Place of birth

Xinjing, Manchukuo, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

41 titles

Known for

An Autumn Afternoon poster
7.9

Widower 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.

An Autumn Afternoon

1962

Women's Police poster
10.0

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, 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.

Women's Police

1969

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter

1971

Song of my Life poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Song of my Life

1968

恋と出世に強くなれ! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

恋と出世に強くなれ!

1963

Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger poster
8.0

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 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.

Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger

1970

Film credits

1970s · 6 titles

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter

1971

Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger poster
8.0

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 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.

Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger

1970

Women Smell of Night poster
7.0

A 1970 crime film.

Women Smell of Night

1970

Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies poster
9.0

Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his ex-sweetheart. He considers himself a private underworld sort of policeman-in the com- munity of such women. Yuko, now a bar proprietress, is under the protection of Tahei Daigo, a sinister gang boss who in his quest for chances of good investments abroad plans to offer young girls to rich foreigners. Asked to gather attractive girls by Yuko, now Tahei's puppet, Masaaki collects many only to find them mysteriously missing...

Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies

1970

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 11 - The Ghost Story of Decapitation poster
NR

Eleventh film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 11 - The Ghost Story of Decapitation

1971

Cursed Hand from the Graveyard poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cursed Hand from the Graveyard

1973

1960s · 32 titles

An Autumn Afternoon poster
7.9

Widower 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.

An Autumn Afternoon

1962

Women's Police poster
10.0

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, 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.

Women's Police

1969

Song of my Life poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Song of my Life

1968

恋と出世に強くなれ! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

恋と出世に強くなれ!

1963

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4 poster
7.5

Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4

1967

Sing, Young People! poster
6.2

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.

Sing, Young People!

1963

Uogashi no senpū musume poster
NR

1963 Japanese movie

Uogashi no senpū musume

1963

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower poster
NR

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 who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

1969

One-Way Ticket to Love poster
6.0

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

One-Way Ticket to Love

1960

Hikkoshi yatsure poster
NR

Manao Horiuchi movie

Hikkoshi yatsure

1961

Love and the Shop Curtain poster
NR

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. So, he asks Milton, an American exchange student, to stay at her inn so he can get closer to her. But Yuri is in love with Shin, a cook at her inn. And although Shin likes her too, the two are constantly bickering. Complicating matters more, is that every other available girl also likes Shin including Chikako, who lives at his boarding house, and Chikoma, who is a geisha. One day when Yuri gets a phone call, she suspects that her mother might be having an affair. But it turns out that Otami reunited with her old flame Tomo, who also used to work as a chef at the inn but left because he feared that their class backgrounds were too different. When Shin learns that Yuri is going to marry...will history repeat itself?

Love and the Shop Curtain

1961

Our Marriage poster
7.1

Poverty-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.

Our Marriage

1962

Marriage of the Sky and the Sea poster
NR

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

Marriage of the Sky and the Sea

1962

A Roaring Trade poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Roaring Trade

1962

August Moon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

August Moon

1962

兵六大臣行状記 漁色のこよみ poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

兵六大臣行状記 漁色のこよみ

1961

A Million Girls poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Million Girls

1963

Dokuritsu bijin-tai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dokuritsu bijin-tai

1963

痛快太郎 poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

痛快太郎

1961

Aisuru poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Aisuru

1961

Shiroi Kiba poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Shiroi Kiba

1960

With Wife, Children, and Friends poster
NR

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, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi.

With Wife, Children, and Friends

1961

Tōkyō sanosa musume poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Tōkyō sanosa musume

1962

Ano hito wa ima poster
NR

1963 Japanese movie

Ano hito wa ima

1963

Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō poster
NR

1963 Japanese movie

Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō

1963

Kawa wa nagareru poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Kawa wa nagareru

1962

Boku chin hōrō-ki poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Boku chin hōrō-ki

1962

Gan-chan no keisatsu nikki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gan-chan no keisatsu nikki

1962

Love's Family Tree poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love's Family Tree

1961

Hattari Seinen Shinshi poster
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Hattari Seinen Shinshi

1961

続々々番頭はんと丁稚どん チャンポン旅行 poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

続々々番頭はんと丁稚どん チャンポン旅行

1961

Kanbi no san-tō shain poster
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Kanbi no san-tō shain

1961

1950s · 3 titles