The King of Minami: The Special Movie

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The King of Minami: Ginjiro Manda

When the recession hits, Osaka-based loan shark Ginjiro Manda decides to help out small business owners in trouble, but finds himself face-to-face with the yakuza who come to collect debts.

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The King of Minami: Planned Bankruptcy

#2 in the King of Minami series. The relentless Osaka loan shark Ginjiro Manda and his apprentice, Ryuichi, attempt to collect from a failed AV producer, setting into motion a complex series of events involving the yakuza, planned bankruptcy schemes and a wily stockbroker named Yasuda.

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The King of Minami: Loan Shark Law

#3 in the King of Minami series. Ginjiro Manda sets his sights on a corrupt cop named Tatsuya, who finds himself in debt to Manda after unsuccessfully trying to scam the ruthless loan shark. The pair also find themselves chasing a notorious con artist, who is himself in debt to an even more ruthless real estate tycoon.

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The King of Minami: First & Second Yen

#4 in the King of Minami series, featuring two stories from the manga. In "High Interest Marriage," Manda helps a woman pull a reverse marital fraud on the man who took advantage of her. Then, in "Ten Million Yen Woman," a man agrees to pay 10 million yen for a one night stand, but ends up seeking Manda's help to avoid paying his debt.

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The King of Minami: Ginjiro vs. Liquidator

#5 in the King of Minami series and the second film to be released theatrically. Manda's original apprentice, Ryuichi, resurfaces after being targeted by the yakuza in Kobe. Meanwhile, Manda hounds a factory owner named Yanagida for his interest payments, only to discover that he's only one of many victims of the evil liquidator Gennai, who profits off of other companies' bankruptcy.

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The King of Minami: Tactical Debt

#6 in the King of Minami series, following "Ginjiro vs. Liquidator." Manda travels to the Philippines to help a young woman track down the man who orchestrated a scam against her father's office computer business.

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The King of Minami: Lady Loan Shark

#7 in the King of Minami series, following "Tactical Debt." Manda tries to save his business from a money-lending hostess club run by yakuza from Tokyo and a beautiful woman with a grudge.

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The King of Minami: Lovers Contract

#8 in the series, after "Lady Loan Shark."

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The King of Minami: Bankruptcy Takeover

#9 in the series, after "Lovers Contract."

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The King of Minami: Sweet Trap

#10 in the series, after "Bankruptcy Takeover."

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The King of Minami: Sham Marriage

#11 in the series, after "Sweet Trap."

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The King of Minami: The Special Movie

When aspiring businessman Chiwaki borrows money from the LA mafia and flees to Japan to escape his debt, he soon finds himself being chased throughout Osaka by the local yakuza and a mafia loan shark. Chiwaki plans to get out of debt by investing in a high-end beauty salon, with a loan from Ginjiro Manda. Soon, Chiwaki finds himself pursued by Manda as well, who is willing to go up against the mafia to get his money back.

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The King of Minami: City of Desire

#13 in the series, after the Special Movie.

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The King of Minami: Ginjiro vs. The Evil Lawyer

#14 in the series, after "City of Desire."

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The King of Minami: Futures Trading Hell

#15 in the series, after "Ginjiro vs. The Evil Lawyer."

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The King of Minami: Con Man's Fate

#16 in the series, after "Futures Trading Hell."

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The King of Minami: Conspiracy

1996 TV Special, #17 in the series.

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The King of Minami: Con Man Exterminator

#18 in the series, after "Conspiracy."

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The King of Minami: Insurance Embezzler

#19 in the series, following "Con Man Elimination."

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The King of Minami: Waiting Woman

#20 in the series, after "Insurance Embezzler."

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The King of Minami: Revenge Shot

#21 in the series, following "Waiting Woman."

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The King of Minami: Recollection

#23 in the series, following the Five Hour Special.

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The King of Minami: Fallen Women

#24 in the series, following "Recollection."

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The King of Minami: Trans Woman Blues

#25 in the King of Minami series. A trans dancer named Rio is in debt to Manda after trying to finance a trip to the US for gender reassignment surgery, still illegal in Japan. The owner of a prestigious nightclub recruits her, introduces her to a doctor in Osaka who performs the illicit surgery and even agrees to foot the bill. But when the club owner turns out to have ulterior motives, Rio turns to Manda for help.

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The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance

#26 in the series, following "Trans Woman Blues."

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The King of Minami: Permanent Scar

#27 in the series, following "Reverse Inheritance."

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The King of Minami: System Finance

#28 in the series, following "Permanent Scar."

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The King of Minami: Bankruptcy - Loan Shark Murder

#30 in the King of Minami series, introducing Ginjiro Manda's new sidekick Kohei. This installment explores the fatal effects of bankruptcy on the loan shark profession, when a young business owner gets tricked into declaring bankruptcy in order to escape from his massive loan debts, prompting Manda to seek revenge on the wily financial advisor behind it all.

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The King of Minami: The Price of Restructuring

#29 in the King of Minami series. Manda and his associates follow a debt-laden detective to Hiroshima, where they plan to collect from his former employer for engaging in wrongful termination, under the intentionally vague label of "restructuring."

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The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt

#31 in the King of Minami series. A washed-up yakuza named Fukunaga borrows money from Manda, unwittingly involving him in a sinister murder plot.

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The King of Minami: Certified Alibi Trap

#32 in the King of Minami series. When the failed president of a recruitment company turns to offering fake job titles for a fee, he is targeted by the yakuza and forced to borrow money from Ginjiro Manda. Despite his attempts to escape his debts by declaring bankruptcy, Manda has other plans.

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The King of Minami: Toichi Ransom

#34 in the series, following "Business Loans - The Guarantor's Trap." Manda teams up with a seasoned con man and an elementary school girl to take on a corrupt lawyer who preys on people unable to pay back their debts.

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The King of Minami: License for Cruelty

#35 in the series, following "Toichi Ransom." Manda uncovers an extortion operation run by a golf-obsessed businessman (Kenichi Endo), who forces bankrupt business owners to buy back their repossessed items at double the auction price.

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The King of Minami: Yakuza Finance

#36 in the series, following "License for Cruelty." The CEO of a yakuza-backed finance company teams up with a shady consultant to convince debtors to sign away the deed to their property in order to declare bankruptcy and clear their debts.

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The King of Minami: Business Loans - The Guarantor's Trap

#33 in the King of Minami series. The CEO of a health food start-up borrows money from Manda using his fiancee's house as collateral, but when his American supplier demands more money than expected, he turns to a business loan company to make up the difference. Meanwhile, a hapless festival merchant turns to Manda when a run-in with the yakuza threatens to derail his business.

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The King of Minami: Formula for Deception

#37 in the series, following "Yakuza Finance."

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The King of Minami: Nest Egg Robbery

#40 in the series, following "Pride." Made-for-TV special following Manda and crew as they search for the man who stole a restaurant owner's life savings, resulting in the death of one of their clients.

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The King of Minami: Debt Seminar

#38 in the series, following "Formula for Deception."

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The King of Minami: Pride

#39 in the series, following "Debt Seminar." A former pro baseball player turned youth baseball coach borrows money from Manda to lend to the gambling-addicted father of his star player.

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The King of Minami: Dark Judgment

#41 in the series, following "Special Ver.40"

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The King of Minami: Bonds - KIZUNA

#42 in the series, following "Dark Judgment"

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The King of Minami: The Price of Betrayal

#43 in the series, following "Bonds - KIZUNA."

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The King of Minami: The Men's Past

#44 in the series, following "The Price of Betrayal."

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The King of Minami: Fraud Methods

#45 in the series, following "The Men's Past"

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The King of Minami 24

#46 in the series

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The King of Minami: The Flower of Temptation

This is the 25th installment of the long-running OV series, which delves into the dark side of society that is often overlooked. This ambitious film sheds light on the ruthless, unknown side of sex-related businesses such as host clubs and brothels, which target people indulging in unbridled desire. Maejima (Bonchi Osamu), an ice shop owner who falls in love with a woman working at a restaurant in Toyota Shinchi, borrows 2 million yen from Ginjiro (Takeuchi) to help her out of debt, but falls into a clever trap set by the greedy host club owner, losing both the shop's land and the building.

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The King of Minami 26

#48 in the series

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The King of Minami: The Masked Woman

#49 in the series, following "Fraud Methods"

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The King of Minami: Special Ver.50

Ginjiro finds that it has become impossible to collect debts when even his regular clients have been conned out of their savings. He discovers that Sugiura gang underboss Domoto is behind these schemes. Domoto wants to take over the gang and tries to ruin Yukino, the real boss’s widow and the gang’s acting head, by sabotaging a resort hotel project with the help of a thug named Kawatani. Ginjiro, who has lent money for the project, is furious when he learns about Domoto’s schemes and goes into action.

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The King of Minami 28

#51 in the series, following "Special Ver.50"

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The King of Minami: Agent of Darkness

#52 in the series.

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The King of Minami: Funeral Procession of Bankruptcy

#53 in the series, following "Agent of Darkness"

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The King of Minami: The Whereabouts of the Compensation

#54 in the series, following "Funeral Procession of Bankruptcy"

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The King of Minami: The Memory of a Stray Dog

#56 in the series.

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The King of Minami: The Pressure of Brands

#57 in the series, following "The Memory of a Stray Dog"

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The King of Minami: Ginjiro vs. the Night Runaway

#58 in the series, following "The Pressure of Brands"

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The King of Minami: A Contrived Marriage

#59 in the series.

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The King of Minami: Legends of the Ring's Edge

#60 in the series, following "A Contrived Marriage"

2004

Blood and Bones

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.

2018

The Outsider

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

1966

The Pornographers

A former Buddhist monk turned erotic filmmaker, Subuyan lives with hairdresser Haru and her two teenage children. Shooting two skin flicks per day, he somehow manages to stay out of the clutches of the yakuza, but real trouble starts when Haru discovers him lusting after her daughter.

2015

Tracers

Wanted by the mafia, a New York City bike messenger escapes into the world of parkour after meeting a beautiful stranger.

2025

Lone Samurai

A violent and reckless samurai is shipwrecked on a remote island left without an avenue for his rage. After undertaking a spiritual journey to appease his aggressive thoughts, he finds himself abducted by external demons taking the form of cannibals, putting his sense of reality and deadly talents to the test.

2018

The Debt Collector

A classically-trained martial artist goes to work as a debt collector for the mob. The job seems easy enough, until one “client” pulls him into a situation deeper than could ever be expected.

1989

Godzilla vs. Biollante

After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation.

2026

Deep Water

A group of international passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai is forced to make an emergency landing in shark-infested waters. The terrified group is forced to work together and overcome their differences if they hope to escape their sinking plane and the frenzy of sharks drawn to the wreckage.

1974

The Street Fighter

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.

2007

Adrift in Tokyo

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

1995

Gonin

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.

2011

Gantz: Perfect Answer

Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.

2002

Barbershop

A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.

2026

Above & Below

A group of friends' dream diving vacation turns into a fight for survival when brutal criminals attack their boat in open waters.

2004

Kamikaze Girls

Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.

2006

Sakuran

Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.

2005

The Great Yokai War

A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression.

1974

The Yakuza

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.

1992

Tokyo Decadence

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

1996

Kids Return

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.