A performance of a takenoko-zoku group can be seen in Chris Marker's film Sans Soleil.
Some Japanese youths admired American music, and Japanese Bill Haley clones were known as rokabiri zoku (the rockabilly tribe).
Mihiro continued her singing career with an all AV Idol group, the Man-zoku ディーバ Divas which originally consisted of Mihiro, Akiho Yoshizawa and Naho Ozawa.
He made his screenwriting debut on director Kōkichi Uchide's 1963 film Zoku: Tenamonya Sandogasa (co-written with Takaharu Sawada), and his directorial debut in 1965 with Osaka Dokonjō Monogatari: Doerai Yatsu, starring Makoto Fujita.