Hiroko Maki

Hiroko Maki

Born: November 10, 1948
Died: July 22, 2000
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Hiroko Maki...

Wasabi
Title: Wasabi
Character: Atsuko Nakano
Released: October 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.
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Horror House Vol.1: Grudge Ghost Classroom
Title: Horror House Vol.1: Grudge Ghost Classroom
Released: June 21, 1992
Type: Movie
Film directed by Yorida Katsuya.
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Gorotsuki
Title: Gorotsuki
Released: March 21, 1992
Type: Movie
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
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Rhapsody in August
Title: Rhapsody in August
Released: May 25, 1991
Type: Movie
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
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Zero
Title: Zero
Released: August 11, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Title: Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Released: April 28, 1979
Type: Movie
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...
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The Sea of Eden
Title: The Sea of Eden
Released: April 24, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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The International Gang of Kobe
Title: The International Gang of Kobe
Character: Maki Tajima
Released: October 14, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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The Blossom and the Sword
Title: The Blossom and the Sword
Character: Mine Kondô
Released: November 17, 1973
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Ai yori aoku
Character: 田宮(村上)真紀
Released: April 3, 1972
Type: TV
The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki is the heroine, married to Shuichi who must go to war. She stays home and takes on the role of other war widows, managing business and a Chinese restaurant.