About this series
Series of direct-to-video and theatrical movies based the manga "Minami no Teiō"
All films — in order
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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."
15
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: 5 Hour Special Part 1
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 2
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 3
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 4
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 5
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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 32
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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"
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