Toru Minegishi Movies

During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...

Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and...

Straight to video Yakuza film.

Sequel to 'Fighting Knife Yoshi'

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to...

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the...

An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.

In 1978, at the Kyoto nightclub "Barami," Ryuji Kagawa (Toru Minegishi), boss of the Yamada-gumi, was gunned down. The man targeting the leader of...

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie...

A woman is discovered strangled inside a car, and Inspector Muta of the Yamashita police station hurries to the scene! The relationship between the...

Arina is a beautiful assassin who uses a knife and her own body to kill high-profile individuals in the political and business world. The next task...

Ken Kariba, who was transferred to the Public Security Department of the Metropolitan Police Department, was investigating allegations of kidnapping...

Drama set in the world of Formula 2 motor racing in Japan.

Young Shima member Wataru Jōjima (Hitoshi Ozawa) witnesses the loss of his boss, Takeo Shima (Jerry Fujio), right before his eyes. Left adrift,...

Takashi, an unemployed young man, is entrusted with a "catch ball shop" by a stranger he meets in the park. While accepting people's feelings through...

Based on the comic book by Jūzō Yamasaki and Kei Sadayasu.

This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value &...