Hiroko Maki
Nascimento : 1948-11-10, Tokyo, Japan
Morte : 2000-07-22
Atsuko Nakano
Após uma briga com o chefe de policia, Hubert Fiorentini, um detetive policial, é obrigado a tirar férias. Poucos dias depois ele recebe um telefonema de um advogado do Japão, avisando que Miko, o grande amor de sua vida e que estava desaparecida há 20 anos, havia falecido recentemente. Hubert, parte imediatamente para Tóquio, onde descobre que Miko, lhe deixou duzentos milhões de dólares e a posse de Yumi, sua filha problemática. Desconfiado, Hubert, procura Momo, seu antigo parceiro na polícia, sendo que juntos descobrem a verdade em torno da misteriosa morte de Miko, e seu envolvimento com a máfia japonesa.
This coming-of-age drama comically depicts two young men who yearn to become members of the yakuza underworld, focusing on the apprenticeship of a rookie yakuza
Em umas férias de verão, uma senhora sobrevivente da bomba de Nagasaki está com seus quatro netos reunidos e conta para eles as lembranças do dia do ataque, que vitimou milhares de pessoas (60 mil e 80 mil seres humanos em Nagasaki), entre elas, seu marido.
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run out on him. In utter confusion, he tries to reason out where he had gone amiss that such a thing should happen out of the clear blue sky. About this time, Yuichi helps Ayako, a young girl, embroiled in trouble. She returns Yuichi's kindness by making off with his precious camera. Then she returns and since his wife has washed her hands of him, he forces himself on Ayako who acts as if she had been waiting for him to enter her. Suddenly, Yuichi's wife returns...
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation with a female teacher. It turns out that Nanjo and Shimizu have fallen in love.
Maki Tajima
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
Mine Kondô
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.