Acting

Shū Minagawa

Born

1951-10-08 (75)

Place of birth

Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

15 titles

Known for

Dai Sentai Goggle-V poster
8.7

Warriors were chosen to battle the Dark Science Empire Death Dark. They fight using Future Science and their weapons are inspired by gymnastics apparatus.

Dai Sentai Goggle-V

1982

Hikari Sentai Maskman poster
8.3

Commander Sugata discovered the existence of the Royal Underground Empire Tube, a malignant force that desires to dominate the land, which is based underneath Japan. He recruits five young people, each one specializing in a style of martial arts, and teaches them in the ways of the mystical "Aura Power" energy. A year after he recruited and trained the Maskmen, Tube is ready to strike.

Hikari Sentai Maskman

1987

Boiling Point poster
6.9

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

Boiling Point

1990

Door II: Tokyo Diary poster
6.2

Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is.

Door II: Tokyo Diary

1991

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally poster
6.4

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

1989

Gimme Shelter poster
5.1

The mother does half-nude aerobics until her son rapes her, and the daughter falls into bed with a female teacher. Despite the shocking goings-on, the film is much more in keeping with Sato's usual themes of alienation and corrupted innocence than its brutal predecessor.

Gimme Shelter

1986

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

Boiling Point poster
6.9

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

Boiling Point

1990

Door II: Tokyo Diary poster
6.2

Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is.

Door II: Tokyo Diary

1991

Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love poster
NR

Yukiko Miki, the only daughter of the Yamako-gumi, a yakuza group in Kansai, begs her father to let her start a company, and with three henchmen who also act as bodyguards, she establishes "Gokiburi Shoji" (Cockroach Trading). Their business involves committing crimes such as bank robberies to make money, and Ryotaro Anzai, who approaches her without knowing she's the daughter of a yakuza, also joins the company. Initially, they plan to rob an armored car, but a father and son duo steal 500 million yen from them. Next, they plan to rig a boat race, but by chance, Ryotaro spots the man who stole the money. Changing their plans, they devise various schemes to get 500 million yen back from the father and son duo.

Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love

1991

Wet Hot Sake poster
4.4

The best must be the freshest. The best sake also follows the same principle to brew in which it needs the best and freshest raw materials, and also the freshest virgin to make it? Visiting one of a Japanese pub that seems to offer the best warm sake, Mononobe tries to follow the steps to reproduce the same flavor. However, he suddenly found out that those flavors are actually a combination of sake, sweat, and other bodily secretions of a virgin. As his only daughter is not a virgin anymore, the only way to make the best sake without a pure virgin is...

Wet Hot Sake

1996

Otome Monogatari poster
NR

Synopsis goes here

Otome Monogatari

1990

1980s · 8 titles

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally poster
6.4

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

1989

Gimme Shelter poster
5.1

The mother does half-nude aerobics until her son rapes her, and the daughter falls into bed with a female teacher. Despite the shocking goings-on, the film is much more in keeping with Sato's usual themes of alienation and corrupted innocence than its brutal predecessor.

Gimme Shelter

1986

Cats on Park Avenue poster
6.5

A story about the lives of young aspiring dancers who strive to create their own musical about stray cats.

Cats on Park Avenue

1989

Nurse Girl Dorm: Sticky Fingers poster
4.3

A new head nurse is assigned to an all female hospital dorm and she can’t wait to revel in her new found freedom as a newly divorced woman. Doctors, nurses and boyfriends are now all fair game.

Nurse Girl Dorm: Sticky Fingers

1985

Woman in a Box 2 poster
4.5

The manager of a ski resort kidnaps women, subjects them to various forms of sexual degradation and keeps his victims in a wooden box in the basement.

Woman in a Box 2

1988

Hitomi Kobayashi's Young Girl's Story poster
3.7

A young lady who lives in a villa, drives a luxury car, plays tennis, throws garden parties and lives a comfortable life. However, she was actually a false young lady. She was a mistress owned by a certain man. But she ignores the feelings of her sugar daddy and runs out of the villa, hunting for other men. However, with the appearance of a certain man, she learns of true love and tries to live that love. However, her body had already refused to be monopolized by any man...

Hitomi Kobayashi's Young Girl's Story

1987

Bed-In poster
4.0

Without knowing their names a man and woman have sex. Afterwards they introduce themselves and begin an affair. The woman feels empty without a man. The man is married with a child but he needs more than what his wife can provide.

Bed-In

1986

Tômei Ningen: Gokuhi Waisetsu poster
2.0

Inventor Shinpei suddenly got a prescription for a rejuvenating elixir. However, the virgin joy juice necessary for the manufacturing method could not be obtained and it got stuck. Shinpei, who snooped on the affair of Keisuke Hanaya and Haruko, a female college student, became a transparent human when Haruko prepared it using paper wiped with love juice and drank the secret medicine that was made.

Tômei Ningen: Gokuhi Waisetsu

1989

Series credits