
Directing
Sadaaki Haginiwa
Born
1956-04-25 (70)
Place of birth
Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Known for
NR#46 in the series
The King of Minami 24
2003
NR#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.
The King of Minami: Lady Loan Shark
1994
NR#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.
The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt
2000
NR#44 in the series, following "The Price of Betrayal."
The King of Minami: The Men's Past
2003
NR#37 in the series, following "Yakuza Finance."
The King of Minami: Formula for Deception
2001
NR#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."
The King of Minami: The Price of Restructuring
1999
Behind the camera
NR#46 in the series
The King of Minami 24
2003
NR#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.
The King of Minami: Lady Loan Shark
1994
NR#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.
The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt
2000
NR#44 in the series, following "The Price of Betrayal."
The King of Minami: The Men's Past
2003
NR#37 in the series, following "Yakuza Finance."
The King of Minami: Formula for Deception
2001
NR#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."
The King of Minami: The Price of Restructuring
1999
NRThis 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.
The King of Minami: The Flower of Temptation
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 4
1998
NRAndo Chigusa is the editor of 'Weekly Topaz'. She rented a room once a week to her female writer, Aso Tsuyoshi, as a place of affair. Chigusa was surprised to find out about the other person. It was Chigusa's ex-boyfriend, Shinjo Tsuyoshi...!!
Suite Room
1993
6.3A psychological suspense based on the novel of the same name by Naoki Prize-winning author Tsuyoshi Osaka. Psychiatrist Aiko Minamikawa was asked to conduct a psychiatric evaluation on a man named Oiwake who assaulted a woman. At that time, a series of murders targeting women who cut off her eyelids after killing them occurred.
Wandering Brain
1993
NR#20 in the series, after "Insurance Embezzler."
The King of Minami: Waiting Woman
1997
NR#49 in the series, following "Fraud Methods"
The King of Minami: The Masked Woman
2004
8.0#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.
The King of Minami: Planned Bankruptcy
1992
8.0A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.
Playtime Never Ends
1991
NR#11 in the series, after "Sweet Trap."
The King of Minami: Sham Marriage
1995
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 5
1998
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 3
1998
NR#56 in the series.
The King of Minami: The Memory of a Stray Dog
2006
NR#43 in the series, following "Bonds - KIZUNA."
The King of Minami: The Price of Betrayal
2002
NR#54 in the series, following "Funeral Procession of Bankruptcy"
The King of Minami: The Whereabouts of the Compensation
2005
NR#19 in the series, following "Con Man Elimination."
The King of Minami: Insurance Embezzler
1997
NR#60 in the series, following "A Contrived Marriage"
The King of Minami: Legends of the Ring's Edge
2007
NR#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.
The King of Minami: Nest Egg Robbery
2001
NR#52 in the series.
The King of Minami: Agent of Darkness
2005
NR#48 in the series
The King of Minami 26
2004
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 1
1998
NR#26 in the series, following "Trans Woman Blues."
The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance
1998
NR#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.
The King of Minami: Tactical Debt
1994
NR#28 in the series, following "Permanent Scar."
The King of Minami: System Finance
1999
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 2
1998
NR#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.
The King of Minami: Certified Alibi Trap
2000
6.0When 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.
The King of Minami: Ginjiro Manda
1992
NR#58 in the series, following "The Pressure of Brands"
The King of Minami: Ginjiro vs. the Night Runaway
2006
NR#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.
The King of Minami: Trans Woman Blues
1998
NR#38 in the series, following "Formula for Deception."
The King of Minami: Debt Seminar
2001
NR#42 in the series, following "Dark Judgment"
The King of Minami: Bonds - KIZUNA
2002
NR#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.
The King of Minami: License for Cruelty
2000
NR1996 TV Special, #17 in the series.
The King of Minami: Conspiracy
1996
NR#45 in the series, following "The Men's Past"
The King of Minami: Fraud Methods
2003
NRThe flavour of the popular King of Minami series , starring Riki Takeuchi, is back after 15 years. A new story of a man who judges evil not with violence but with the law in order to achieve retribution. Six months after serving a nine-year prison sentence for murder, a man appears in Minami, Osaka . He is joined by like-minded lawyers Sugiyama and private detective Shimizu, who cut their way into a fraudulent medical trial at a university hospital. Eventually, the dark side of the hospital's management comes to light...
City of Desire No.1 - The Road to Retribution
2023
