Noriko Maki

A 1970 crime film.

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

딸 미치코와 함께 살고 있는 초로의 신사 히라야마. 히라야마는 친한 친구로부터 딸을 결혼시키라는 이야기를 듣지만 자신의 눈에 비친 딸은 어리게만 보인다. 이후 술에 취한 중학교 은사를 집까지 배웅했다가, 그 옛날 아름다웠던 은사의 딸이 결혼도 하지 않은 채 아버지를 걱정하며 늙고 초췌한 모습으로 변해있는 모습을 보고 딸 미치코를 떠올린다. 일본영화계 전체가 하향세를 그릴 즈음 오즈와 노다 콤비가 만든 마지막 작품이자 오즈의 유작. 실제 미혼으로 평생을 살았던 오즈가 어머니에 대해 느끼는 애정은 남달랐고, 이 작품의 시나리오 집필 중에 어머니를 잃은 오즈가 바라보는 노년의 고독 또한 다른 사람들보다 더욱 가혹하고 엄격할 수밖에 없어 보인다. 밝고 유머러스한 화면의 저변에 흐르는 적막감이 선명하게 그려져 가슴을 에이는 이 영화는 이제까지의 작품 중 최고의 원숙미를 자랑하는 영화다. 부드러운 유머와 함께 이제까지 즐겨 다루어왔던 이전 테마로 다시 돌아간 작품이다.

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

Japanese comedy film.

Manao Horiuchi movie

Japanese comedy film.

시노다 마사히로의 데뷔작으로 당시 폭발적인 인기를 얻고 있던 로큰롤 뮤직광들의 세계를 허무주의적인 시각에서 다룬 작품. 목표 없이 방황하는 젊은이들의 삶을 통해 당시 사회의 모순을 감각적이고 예리한 시선으로 고발하는 한편, 방향성을 잃은 현대일본의 방황과 소외, 염세주의 등 시노다 마사히로가 이후 계속해서 천착하게 되는 모더니즘적인 테마가 잘 드러나 있다. (2006년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 일본영화 계승과 혁신 : 쇼치쿠 110주년 영화제)

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 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.

Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.