Acting

Shin Minatsu

Born

1941-06-13 (85)

Place of birth

Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Known for

Kogarashi Monjiro poster
8.0

Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mouth. Monjiro avoided getting involved in anything, but wherever he went, he ended up getting involved in incidents

Kogarashi Monjiro

1972

Red Angel poster
7.6

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.

Red Angel

1966

Gamera vs. Gyaos poster
6.1

Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance with Gamera; a monster no one else seems to trust.

Gamera vs. Gyaos

1967

Gamera vs. Barugon poster
6.4

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Gamera vs. Barugon

1966

Seisaku's Wife poster
7.3

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Seisaku's Wife

1965

Love for an Idiot poster
6.0

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.

Love for an Idiot

1967

Film credits

1970s · 13 titles

Gamera vs. Zigra poster
4.7

A moon base is destroyed by a spaceship from Zigra which is looking to take over the planet earth to use its oceans for its ocean-dwelling denizens. Gamera must once again come to the aid of the human race while all of Japan roots him on.

Gamera vs. Zigra

1971

Rikugun rakugo-hei poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rikugun rakugo-hei

1971

The Dream Girl poster
NR

Yumi worked at a small snack bar called Bacchus, tucked away in a corner of the city. Before long, she had gathered her own entourage—three men named Takeshi, Ken, and Toru. Convinced that the true essence of youth lay in taking risks, Yumi’s boyfriend, Takeshi, dreamed of taking the helm of a yacht and sailing off to unknown lands. Ken, a factory worker from a small-town workshop, fantasized about creating a guerrilla radio station that played nothing but the new rock sounds—the shared language of youth. Meanwhile, Toru, a college student who proudly styled himself as a revolutionary. The trio began saving money as if to make their dreams tangible. They entered an endurance contest but they were eliminated. With a goal of raising 3 million yen by the following summer, their prospects looked bleak. In the days that followed, each arrived at the same conclusion: they could exploit Yumi’s exceptional beauty and striking sexy physique by launching an alluring honey-trap scheme.

The Dream Girl

1970

Child Bride poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Child Bride

1970

Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance poster
NR

16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance

1970

Games poster
6.5

A 16-year-old girl works in a factory to pay her late father’s debt. When she makes up her mind to become a hostess, a boy approaches her with kind and gentle manners...(Also occasionally known in English as “Play”)

Games

1971

Live and Learn poster
8.0

Tetsuko (Eiko Yanami), a high school student, one day, forces Tsuneo, (Kei Wakakura), the brightest boy in her school, to make love to her after school is out and they are caught by the old school janitor. Tsuneo's mother, orders Tetsuko to pay for what she did to her son but Tetsuko blackmails her instead, saying that she is ready to inform a news company of what has happened to Tsuneo and receives one million yen hush money. Expelled from school, she comes to Tokyo, intending to take a round-the-world trip. But Sankichi (Yoshihiko Aoyama), a jack-of-all-trades, cheats her. So, she makes up her mind to catch him and get back her money.

Live and Learn

1971

No artwork available
10.0

A talented man and a dull-witted one plan a big crime.

The Genius and Delinquent

1971

Kigeki: Ohi Kaenasutte! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kigeki: Ohi Kaenasutte!

1970

Mona Lisa Okyo poster
9.0

The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Teruo Tanashita, Mari Atsumi plays a pickpocket trying to get hold of a valuable but elusive diamond brooch called "Star".

Mona Lisa Okyo

1971

Snow Country Elegy poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Snow Country Elegy

1971

No artwork available
9.0

When Daisaku Hotta (Kosaburo Onogawa), the cheer leader of Tonan High School, hears that Rikiya Kudo (Saburo Shindo), the captain of the Judo team and Shiro Usami (Kei Wakakura) of the boxing team are about to fight, he breaks it up that are apt to erupt so suddenly on campus. Rikiya is an honor student, recommended to the Toa University by his school and is almost certain of being accepted next spring. Shiro is long on brute strength but short on brains. Naturally, they waste little love on each other, so there is very little ground for any understanding between them.

The All-Out Game

1970

与太郎戦記 女は幾万ありとても poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

与太郎戦記 女は幾万ありとても

1970

1960s · 38 titles

Red Angel poster
7.6

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.

Red Angel

1966

Gamera vs. Gyaos poster
6.1

Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance with Gamera; a monster no one else seems to trust.

Gamera vs. Gyaos

1967

Gamera vs. Barugon poster
6.4

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Gamera vs. Barugon

1966

Seisaku's Wife poster
7.3

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Seisaku's Wife

1965

Love for an Idiot poster
6.0

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.

Love for an Idiot

1967

The Time of Reckoning poster
7.5

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.

The Time of Reckoning

1968

The School of Spies poster
6.6

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.

The School of Spies

1966

Order of Yakuza poster
8.0

Order of Yakuza

Order of Yakuza

1962

A Night to Remember poster
7.5

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.

A Night to Remember

1962

While Yet a Wife poster
7.0

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband's future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing she can do for him.

While Yet a Wife

1965

The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game poster
8.0

13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game

1969

The Great Villains poster
5.5

Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer.

The Great Villains

1968

Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys! poster
10.0

In this sizzling escapade, three irresistible vixens—Dump, Hip, and Bump—deliver a daring, alluring masterclass in mischief. Dump, a martial arts maven, combines lethal moves with an untamed sensuality, while Hip captivates with her razor-sharp wit and magnetic allure. Meanwhile, Bump’s sultry charm turns even the staunchest hearts to mush. Under Masako Sakamoto's provocative orders, they plunge into hedonistic debauchery at the “Dream National Assembly.” First, they seductively manipulate sauna sirens into high-stakes bets that pay off handsomely. Next, they incite wild, erotic revelry at a ghostly bar, unleashing an intoxicating tide of risqué abandon. Finally, their provocative presence ignites a deluxe key club with unbridled, seductive intensity, transforming scandal into a lush celebration of desire.

Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!

1969

The Frolic of the Beasts poster
9.0

Young student Koji attacks literary critic Ippei out of a desperate love for Ippei's neglected wife, Yuko. Following his release from prison, the three are bound together in a tense and destructive co-existence.

The Frolic of the Beasts

1964

Woman Gambler and the Nun poster
7.0

Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Woman Gambler and the Nun

1968

The Woman Gambler's Supplication poster
10.0

Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

The Woman Gambler's Supplication

1968

The Story of a Blind Woman poster
5.0

At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, she meets a businessman and falls in love with him.

The Story of a Blind Woman

1965

Two Enemy Women Gamblers poster
10.0

Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Two Enemy Women Gamblers

1969

Sweet Seventeen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sweet Seventeen

1964

Zero-Fighters poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Zero-Fighters

1965

School for Thieves poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

School for Thieves

1968

The Venus' Tear poster
10.0

1962 Japanese movie

The Venus' Tear

1962

The Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again

1966

The Woman Gambler's Trump Card poster
NR

15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

The Woman Gambler's Trump Card

1969

Record of a  Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy

1968

The Woman Champion poster
10.0

Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

The Woman Champion

1968

Green Fruit poster
NR

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears

Green Fruit

1964

G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards

1967

Champion Woman Gambler poster
9.0

Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Champion Woman Gambler

1968

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time

1968

A Woman's Gamble poster
NR

Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling, as she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer.

A Woman's Gamble

1966

Kakkoii wakamono tachi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Kakkoii wakamono tachi

1962

The Diary of a Sex Counsellor 2 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Diary of a Sex Counsellor 2

1968

雪の降る街に poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

雪の降る街に

1962

Woman Gambling Expert: Odd/Even Gambling Trip poster
7.0

14th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

Woman Gambling Expert: Odd/Even Gambling Trip

1969

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy 2 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy 2

1969

新・与太郎戦記 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

新・与太郎戦記

1969

The Diary of a Sex Counsellor poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Diary of a Sex Counsellor

1968

Series credits