Mineko Nishikawa

The Pledge to Megumi (2021)

A film depicting the story of Yokota Megumi who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977. ...

Gokudo no Ane (2014)

Shura ga Yuku 12 (2000)

The King of Minami: Trans Woman Blues (1998)

#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 ...

King of Sha-kin 4 (1998)

Shura ga Yuku 3 (1996)

The third hit series of a gangster movie that depicts a fateful confrontation between a man stigmatized for killing a gangster and confronting an enemy who has fitted himself. The stage will be moved to Kyushu, and the escalated battle between yakuza will ...

Manji Mai 3: I will let you go Paradise Jodo (1996)

The female ninja butterfly was the daughter of a large store five years ago. ...

The Lioness (1994)

A yakuza movie that depicts a heroine who inherited her husband's will and took the name of the group leader, standing up to put an end to the conflict ...

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat (1991)

A woman who, disguised as a beggar, turns out to be a formidable assassin, is charged by a warden to infiltrate a women's prison, to run the one that took his eye with a wooden spoon carved from a knife - a woman named Nami Matsushima, known within the wal ...

Yakuza Ladies 3 (1989)

Upon the passing of the Sakanishi Clan's boss, a fierce battle between his wife Hazuki and his disciple Terada breaks out. Will Hazuki be able to assume her husband's position as the head of the established yakuza clan? ...

A Chaos of Flowers (1988)

Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences amon ...

Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa (1988)

Gate of Flesh (1988)

Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise. The hookers live in a bombed-out building, but they accept the precarious situation with typical re ...

Tokyo Bordello (1987)

A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the brothel has hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after se ...

Gate of Youth 2 (1982)

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu. ...

Proof of the Man (1977)

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime. ...