Toshiaki Minami

Acting

Toshiaki Minami

Born — Died

1924-03-14 — 1995-01-13

Place of birth

Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

Rinbu poster
NR

Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and her boyfriend go to a pool bar where she is served a free cocktail drink courtesy of a man who wants to date her. Another guy challenges her boyfriend to a game with the girlfriend being the prize. Three men are fighting over the young woman and a winner takes the girl. It ends up as four guys and the woman in a hotel room.

Rinbu

1988

Oh! Takarazuka poster
4.0

Takarazuka is a gym teacher who wants to work in a girls high school in the worst way, and of course, for the worst reasons. He finally lands his dream job on a remote island with an overabundance of beautiful and nubile young girls. Can he win their hearts despite his hair trigger problem?

Oh! Takarazuka

1982

Roaring Fire poster
6.5

On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash. Shortly thereafter Joji goes to Japan is search of his sister and his twin brother Toru. Joji’s quickly finds his sister Chihiro who is now blind and lives with their uncle. Joji one evening accidently over hears his uncle who has ties to the criminal underworld discussing his various illegal operations. Joji ‘s eavesdropping is discovered by his uncle who offers him a chance to join the organization. Joji promptly turns his uncle’s offer down which immediately puts his life in danger.

Roaring Fire

1981

Secret of the Forbidden Valley poster
7.0

A thrilling historical drama in which a ronin played plays an active role in redeeming the name of a man who was put to death for a crime, despite being innocent.

Secret of the Forbidden Valley

1983

Big Magnum Kuroiwa poster
NR

Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a “Big Magnum 44” gun is sent to a school that is full of violence. Can Kuroiwa reform the students with the gun?

Big Magnum Kuroiwa

1985

1970s · 28 titles

A Kamikaze Cop poster
5.8

An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.

A Kamikaze Cop

1970

Truck Rascals in Fever Heat poster
10.0

The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” who travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. Momojiro goes to Shikoku this time, and he falls in love with a beautiful designer named Wakako, who is on a pilgrimage.

Truck Rascals in Fever Heat

1976

The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail poster
10.0

Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. After serving four and a half years in prison, Masa and his brother Katsuji leave Kobe to go to Nagoya to help a hostess get her daughter back from her mother. As they arrive in Nagoya, they get into a scuffle with the local yakuza affiliate. Sugawara and Kawaji's chemistry is even more evident here than usual, the storyline is alright if melodramatic. Delightful start with Tatsuo Endo as a nice guy prison guard! How many times have you seen that? And we got Kyosuke Machida (henchman) with cool beard and the always good Tsunehiko Watase (young hood) on board as well. One of the best films in the series.

The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail

1973

Trials of an Okinawa Village poster
6.4

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences. She must battle a yakuza organization with her employees to help settle things.

Trials of an Okinawa Village

1971

A 5,000 Kilometer Run under The Scorching Sun poster
8.0

Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan's place driving logging freight through the mountains. There he meets the wild and beautiful Natsu.

A 5,000 Kilometer Run under The Scorching Sun

1979

Third Generation Boss poster
8.0

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Third Generation Boss

1974

I Am A Man of Honor poster
9.0

The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. In Kyushu, Momojiro falls in love again... this time with a beautiful college student Masako.

I Am A Man of Honor

1977

Eight Men to Kill poster
6.7

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despite a desperate search the gold has not been found, causing officials of the Tokugawa bakufu to call on their most skillful secret agent, Shikoro Ichibei.

Eight Men to Kill

1972

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape poster
5.8

Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

1971

A Yakuza Has His Way poster
9.0

The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family crest, Seikichi Shimamura sets out with his henchmen on a journey to acquire the crest of a local bankrupt family. The local Iwahashi clan and the fishermen fought over the construction of the industrial complex, but when Seikichi learned that the Seiyu-kai was behind the Iwahashi clan, he sided with the fishermen...

A Yakuza Has His Way

1972

Woman His Prey poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Woman His Prey

1972

Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams poster
6.8

Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run by Junko Miyazono.

Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams

1970

Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back poster
9.0

In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carries his sword disguised as a Priest?s staff. One of the strongest entries in the series, Shinkai is badly injured, and must face his worst enemy in what could be their final showdown.

Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back

1970

Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler poster
7.7

Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- martial arts legend Sonny Chiba -- in the role of Nami's loyal friend Ryuji. This time around, Nami is looking for Hoshiden, the man who murdered her father and shattered her once-hopeful childhood. But living under an assumed name, Hoshiden could stay hidden forever.

Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler

1972

Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me poster
6.6

The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and his best friend Kinzo take to the road on their cargo trucks impressing each other with their skills in driving fast and evading the police while transporting commodities throughout the country. Chance encounters with people along the way help them to come to terms with events clouding their past and offer them a shot at redemption.

Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me

1975

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter

1971

Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate poster
6.4

An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.

Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate

1970

Run Truck Rascal, Run! poster
10.0

Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Momojiro helps her by diving in to collect the sheets for her and ends up falling in love.

Run Truck Rascal, Run!

1979

Truckster Goes to Hokkaido poster
8.5

Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.

Truckster Goes to Hokkaido

1976

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess poster
6.1

Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs an auto repair shop that the local Yakuza are trying to force out of business and take over, and starts working for him. At the same time a recently released from prison, and now ill Yakuza is trying to make a new life for himself and his girl, a friend of Reiko's, who also just graduated from reform school. A fateful car crash brings the two on a collision course with each other and the brutal Yakuza clan, which can only end bloody vengeance.

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess

1971

Short and Fat poster
8.0

A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".

Short and Fat

1977

Hobo General poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hobo General

1976

The Hard Core Criminal poster
7.5

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the prisoners and the warden to escalate.

The Hard Core Criminal

1973

Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai

1971

Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel poster
NR

The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddler, who this time ventures to Osaka where he defends a blind girl at a street market. The area is targeted by rotten yakuza (Asao Koike and Tatsuo Endo), who have lured local senior female boss (Nijiko Kiyokawa’s) rebellious but not entirely indecent son Goro Ibuki to their side.

Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel

1970

Tarao Bannai poster
9.5

Baseball player Takatsuka is murdered mid-game in front of a large crowd. The autopsy reveals that he has been killed by a needle coated with a poison used by the Ainu tribe for hunting. The next morning, sports photographer Kawase is killed in the same manner. Kawase’s sister, Yuko, hires Taro Banai, the detective with seven faces, to uncover the truth.

Tarao Bannai

1978

Patience Has An End poster
5.9

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

Patience Has An End

1971

The Lucky Status Symbol poster
NR

Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buying his sister a washing machine for her wedding, he travels to Tokyo, where he must help his friend Masa out of a half-million yen debt. Among other hijinks, he becomes a penis god in the process.

The Lucky Status Symbol

1972

1960s · 15 titles

Thirteen Times a Loser poster
NR

Mineoka Group executive Okitsu Seiji is imprisoned for the 13th time for attacking rival Kuronuma. While in prison, he learns that the Kuronuma Group has retaliated by killing its leader and seizing territory. Upon his release, he embarks on a revenge campaign.

Thirteen Times a Loser

1969

Biographies of Killers poster
NR

1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie

Biographies of Killers

1969

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love poster
6.2

A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love

1969

Chûshingura poster
7.1

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Chûshingura

1962

Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game poster
7.3

The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her femininity with a red peony tattoo and lives in world of chivalry and honor of the yakuza. This story takes place in the middle of the Meiji era in Nagoya. Oryu is wandering the country, training herself to reinstate her family name. With a written recommendation from Kumatora, she appears at the door of the Nishinomaru family. At the same time, the family is preparing for the gambling competition at the Netsuda Shrine Festival, which they have been hosting for generations. Meanwhile, the crooked Kinbara family is plotting to take over the competition. And now Oryu is forced to get involved in the struggle…

Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game

1969

Last Days of the Tokugawa Regime: Tenamonya Confusion poster
NR

The fourth "Tenamonya" feature. Adapted from the popular television comedy, Fujita stars in this film based on historical events.

Last Days of the Tokugawa Regime: Tenamonya Confusion

1967

Sazae-san Plays Cupid poster
8.0

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.

Sazae-san Plays Cupid

1961

Kanto Street Peddlers poster
NR

Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into conflict with an unholy alliance of evil Yakuza bosses (Watanabe, Amatsu and Kawazu).

Kanto Street Peddlers

1969

Gokudô Petenshi poster
10.0

A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They overturn the distorted trends and authorities of modern society through peculiar methods such as taking over temples and creating fake emerging religions.

Gokudô Petenshi

1969

Kono michi akashingō poster
NR

This film depicts women who throw themselves into the world of call girls as an easy way to make a living and seek pleasure, only to ruin their lives through money and sex.

Kono michi akashingō

1964

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town poster
6.5

Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town

1969

A Devil of a Gentleman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Devil of a Gentleman

1963

Heavenly Comic Story of a Gentleman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Heavenly Comic Story of a Gentleman

1960

Hito mo arukeba poster
9.0

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

Hito mo arukeba

1960

Uogashi no senpū musume poster
NR

1963 Japanese movie

Uogashi no senpū musume

1963

1950s · 12 titles