The King of Minami: Pride

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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"

2001

Hardball

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

2023

The Hill

The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseball (MLB) player.

1998

Dirty Work

Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.

2026

Dead Man's Wire

In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.

2005

Two for the Money

A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

2003

Matchstick Men

A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

1998

The Big Lebowski

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

2014

Where Hope Grows

Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life has thrown him. Today, he mindlessly sleepwalks through his days and the challenge of raising his teenager daughter. His life is in a slow downward spiral when it is suddenly awakened and invigorated by the most unlikely person – Produce, a young-man with Down syndrome who works at the local grocery store.

1984

The Natural

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.

1987

House of Games

A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.

2023

Rumble Through the Dark

In the dark landscape of the Mississippi Delta, a former bare-knuckle fighter must win one last fight to pay off his debts to the local mob boss and save his childhood home—the stakes nothing less than life or death.

2012

People Like Us

After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.

1998

Rounders

Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.

2015

The Big Short

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

2019

Kakegurui: The Movie

Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrols, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!

2026

Idiots

Two rock-bottom drivers transport a wealthy teen to rehab, but their simple job spirals into a chaotic journey of drugs, danger, and crime as their passenger derails their plans.

1996

The Fan

When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan, Gil Renard. When Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the obsessed Renard decides to stop at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory—not even murder.

2014

The Gambler

Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.

2025

Ballad of a Small Player

Amid the glittering casinos of Macau, a gambler running from his past—and his debts—becomes fascinated by an enigmatic woman at the baccarat table.

2025

The Luckiest Man in America

1984; Michael Larson, an unemployed ice-cream truck driver from Ohio, steps onto the game show "Press Your Luck" harboring a secret: the key to endless amounts of money. But his winning streak is threatened when the executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations.