
Acting
Noriko Maki
Born
1940-03-28 (86)
Place of birth
Xinjing, Manchukuo, China
Known for
Acting
Credits
41 titles
Known for
7.9Widower 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
10.0Around 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Song of my Life
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
恋と出世に強くなれ!
1963
8.0Kagari (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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1971
8.0Kagari (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
7.0A 1970 crime film.
Women Smell of Night
1970
9.0Aboard 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
NREleventh film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 11 - The Ghost Story of Decapitation
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cursed Hand from the Graveyard
1973
1960s · 32 titles
7.9Widower 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
10.0Around 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Song of my Life
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
恋と出世に強くなれ!
1963
7.5Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
1967
6.2A 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
NR1963 Japanese movie
Uogashi no senpū musume
1963
NRA 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
6.0The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
One-Way Ticket to Love
1960
NRManao Horiuchi movie
Hikkoshi yatsure
1961
NROtami 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
7.1Poverty-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
NRA love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaka.
Marriage of the Sky and the Sea
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Roaring Trade
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
August Moon
1962
NR1961 Japanese movie
兵六大臣行状記 漁色のこよみ
1961
5.0No synopsis available yet.
A Million Girls
1963
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dokuritsu bijin-tai
1963
NR1961 Japanese movie
痛快太郎
1961
NR1961 Japanese movie
Aisuru
1961
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Shiroi Kiba
1960
NRJapanese 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
NR1962 Japanese movie
Tōkyō sanosa musume
1962
NR1963 Japanese movie
Ano hito wa ima
1963
NR1963 Japanese movie
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
1963
NR1962 Japanese movie
Kawa wa nagareru
1962
NR1962 Japanese movie
Boku chin hōrō-ki
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Gan-chan no keisatsu nikki
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Love's Family Tree
1961
NRJapanese comedy film.
Hattari Seinen Shinshi
1961
NR1961 Japanese movie
続々々番頭はんと丁稚どん チャンポン旅行
1961
NRJapanese comedy film.
Kanbi no san-tō shain
1961
1950s · 3 titles
NRThe 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 proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
Tokyo Omnibus
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Koko ni otoko ari
1959
NRComedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.
Donto ikōze
1959
