Junior Chihara

Transcending Dimensions (2025)

Rosuke, a monk, has gone missing. His lover, Nonoka, takes the assassin Shinno to a religious temple in search of Rosuke. There, they meet a sorcerer called Hanzo. Meanwhile, Rosuke is on a spaceship heading to the unknown planet named Kelman, in another d ...

The New King of Minami ~ Ginjiro's New Enemy is God! (2023)

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Pretenders (2018)

In Osaka, Shiromiya will soon turn 40 years old and he is unemployed. He lives with his daughter Yoyoko who is 5-years-old. Yoyoko has a secret. One day, Shiromiya's childhood friend Machi appears in front of them. Machi is a police officer. She looks at Y ...

The King of Minami Returns: A Winning Divorce, a Losing Divorce (2018)

Osaka loan shark Ginjiro Manda becomes entangled in an elaborate divorce scheme targeting a hard-working waitress at his cafe. ...

The King of Minami The Movie (2017)

A pair of schoolgirls get caught up in a scheme targeting local businesses. Loan shark Ginjiro can help, but first things first: what's in it for him? ...

The King of Minami Returns: Light and Shadow (2017)

Loan shark Ginjiro meets two people from his past: Harumi, who runs a kids restaurant; and Shimamoto, a human rights lawyer who isn't what he seems. ...

The King of Minami Returns: The Price of a Life (2017)

When his brother is taken hostage, loan shark Ginjiro must face his heartless past while attempting to shake the shadowy force threatening his life. ...

The King of Minami Returns: Scholarship and Oreore Fraud (2016)

Feared loan shark Ginjiro Manda investigates a group of fraudsters when a struggling student and a widow with links to the group ask him for money. ...

The King of Minami Returns: A 250 Dollar Promise (2015)

A man who borrowed money from Ginjiro commits suicide. He had been laid off by the unethical Naniwa Advertising Co. A new recruit is also suffering. ...

The King of Minami Returns: A Sweet Swindler's Deadly Trap (2015)

A self-proclaimed cult founder comes to loan shark Ginjiro. Ginjiro sees through his lies and judges the cult a fraud. A co-conspirator is bitter. ...

The King of Minami Returns: How to Make Money (2014)

Business turns bad for Ginjiro's client Matsuno. Self-proclaimed behavioral economist Keiko appears, and the businesses she advises boom. She's a hit! ...

The King of Minami Returns: Ginjiro, Arrested!? (2014)

Osaka loan shark Ginjiro meets Tomoe, a childhood friend of his friend Ryuichi, but the lonely Tomoe has fallen in love with a man she met online. ...

The King of Minami Returns: Ginjiro in Danger (2013)

Ginjiro lends 50 million yen to a man named Sugaya, who dies before repaying it. Sugaya's daughter appears with a photo of someone unknown to Ginjiro. ...

The King of Minami Returns: Paper Scraps for Money (2013)

Ginjiro looks after 10-year-old Ayumi. Her mother is away on staff training. The company is a criminal outfit pushing unlisted stock to the elderly. ...

The King of Minami Returns: A Backstreet Factory in Danger (2012)

Ginjiro meets factory owner Shirakawa, who has been given a 50-million-yen draft he has no memory of. Ginjiro hears rumors of a draft fraud ring. ...

The King of Minami Returns: A Scrappy Business (2012)

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. ...

The King of Minami Returns: The Seal of Betrayal (2011)

Loan shark Ginjiro Manda meets with a former client, design firm CEO Tominaga. It was Tominaga's wife who saved Manda from bankruptcy 10 years ago. ...

The King of Minami Returns (2010)

Loan shark Ginjiro Manda meets an old friend, banker Imamiya. Harassed by his manager and pestered about past mistakes, Imamiya commits suicide. ...

The King of Minami: Special Ver.50 (2004)

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 ...

Kaminari hashiru natsu (2003)

Japanese film directed by Masato Tanno. ...

9 Souls (2003)

After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden. ...

Moon Child (2003)

Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life and the curse of blood thirst. Over time, their tight ...

1-Ichi (2003)

In this prequel we witness the teenage roots of Ichi's manic-depressive beginnings and the origins of his monster-sized kicks and his anger, his psychological, as well as physical, beatings. ...

Young Thugs: EPISODE FINAL Stand By Me (2002)

Rush! (2001)

A wacky tale of two guys, one Korean and one Japanese who, mistaken for a couple of murderers, take to their heels, thus starting off a adrenaline-pumping (and often zany) adventure with a distorted sense of time. ...

Hysteric (2000)

In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a short temper and no visible means of support. Amour fou blooms between them, and a year later they're living t ...

Pornostar (1998)

A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit. While things work out in the beginning, this young psychopath quickly becomes more ...

Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (1997)

Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down into a career of enforcement and protectio ...