A yakuza loan shark trades blood for briefcases — and it's oddly satisfying.
The flavour of the popular King of Minami series , starring Riki Takeuchi, is back after 15 years. A new story of a man who judges evil not with violence but with the law in order to achieve retribution. Six months after serving a nine-year prison sentence for murder, a man appears in Minami, Osaka . He is joined by like-minded lawyers Sugiyama and private detective Shimizu, who cut their way into a fraudulent medical trial at a university hospital. Eventually, the dark side of the hospital's management comes to light...
Acting
Riki Takeuchi's weathered charisma — the man IS the genre.
Direction
Haginiwa's efficient, no-filler storytelling in 70 tight minutes.
Production
Minami district authenticity — you can smell the neon.
Director
Sadaaki Haginiwa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This revives the 'King of Minami' V-cinema franchise dormant since 2008, a direct-to-video genre that built Japan's home video era.
Takeuchi and Taguchi previously starred together in 'Dead or Alive' — their reunion here is decades of yakuza film history colliding.
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