

When his brother is taken hostage, loan shark Ginjiro must face his heartless past while attempting to shake the shadowy force threatening his life.
Acting
Junior Chihara's weathered charisma carries every scene.
Direction
Ruto squeezes maximum tension into 67 minutes.
Production
Osaka's Minami district as a character itself.

Director
Toichiro Ruto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the long-running King of Minami series based on Tsuyoshi Osaka's novels, chronicling Osaka's underground economy since 1990.
At 67 minutes, this is essentially a feature-length episode—director Toichiro Ruto cut his teeth on V-Cinema, Japan's direct-to-video genre machine.
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