

A loan shark called 'Demon' vs a cosmetics mogul? Let them fight.
Loan shark Ginjiro is known as the Demon of Minami. Cosmetics maker Kaburaki has his eye on him. Sakagami meets Yulim, who has come over from Korea.
Acting
Junior Chihara's unhinged Ginjiro energy
Production
Osaka's Minami district as character itself
Writing
Debt-collection scenes with weird moral weight
Director
Kazumasa Nemoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Minami series spans 20+ films since 1992, adapting Tsukasa Shiba's manga about Osaka's underground economy. This 2012 revival shifted toward Korean-Japanese tensions rarely addressed in mainstream J-cinema.
Director Kazumasa Nemoto shot this in 8 days with largely non-union crew, explaining the 74-minute runtime and handheld urgency that critics called 'accidentally documentary-like.'
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