Midori Takei
Also Known As: 武井みどり, Midori Takei, 竹井みどり
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 14, 1959
Age: 66 years old
Gender: Female
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The King of Minami: Conspiracy
Overview: 1996 TV Special, #17 in the series.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-21
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The King of Minami: Bankruptcy - Loan Shark Murder
Overview: #30 in the King of Minami series, introducing Ginjiro Manda's new sidekick Kohei. This installment explores the fatal effects of bankruptcy on the loan shark profession, when a young business owner gets tricked into declaring bankruptcy in order to escape from his massive loan debts, prompting Manda to seek revenge on the wily financial advisor behind it all.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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Daitetsujin 17
Overview: Young orphan Saburo uses a special helmet to command the Iron Robot 17 against the forces of the renegade computer Brain. Theatrical release re-edited from the first two episodes of the TV series, which actually preceded the original broadcast of the second episode.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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Daitetsujin 17: Aerial Battleship
Overview: Captain Gomes uses a flying battleship to battle the giant robot Daitetsujin 17. Theatrically-released abridgement of Episode 15 of the TV series.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-07-17
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Brain 17
Overview: Brain is the world's greatest computer, and also the most intelligent being on planet Earth. One day, Brain decides to abandon its terrestrial moorings, and it's up to The Defenders to track it down. Unfortunately, Brain has developed an amazing army of deadly giant robots, including one with a huge "17" emblazoned on its chest-plate, with which it plans to subjugate its creators. A young boy whose family was killed by Brain's followers manages to activate Daitetsujin 17, which thereafter comes to his rescue whenever he is in danger from Brain's minions.
Genres: Family Science Fiction Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-06
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Jesus' Ark
Overview: One-episode drama starring Beat Takeshi depicting the turbulent life of the protagonist Takeyoshi Sengoku, based on the "Jesus' Ark Incident".
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-09
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The King of Minami: Insurance Embezzler
Overview: #19 in the series, following "Con Man Elimination."
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-02
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The Vampire Inspector
Overview: During the reign of the 11th Shogun, a series of supernatural incidents occur every night in the Edo Castle. A beautiful inspector appears with thunder and lightning to suck people’s blood and kill them. The examiner’s true identity is Amakusa Shiro, a young samurai from the Amakusa clan that was destroyed by the harsh Christian persecution of the Shogunate. Shirō sold his soul to the devil and became an evil spirit. After 160 years since destruction of Amakusa, his revenge to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate begins.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-07
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Knife
Overview: Arina is a beautiful assassin who uses a knife and her own body to kill high-profile individuals in the political and business world. The next task received from the head of the organization, Kojiro, was to eliminate En, an arms dealer from Southeast Asia. Arina tries to get closer to him while he is in Japan. However, due to a partner's mistake, the plan is revealed and she becomes a prisoner...
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-06
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The King of Minami: Waiting Woman
Overview: #20 in the series, after "Insurance Embezzler."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-18
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悪党図鑑
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-08-20
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The King of Minami: The Price of Restructuring
Overview: #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."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-10-15
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The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt
Overview: #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.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-21
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 1
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The King of Minami: The Special Movie
Overview: When aspiring businessman Chiwaki borrows money from the LA mafia and flees to Japan to escape his debt, he soon finds himself being chased throughout Osaka by the local yakuza and a mafia loan shark. Chiwaki plans to get out of debt by investing in a high-end beauty salon, with a loan from Ginjiro Manda. Soon, Chiwaki finds himself pursued by Manda as well, who is willing to go up against the mafia to get his money back.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-01
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Escape Captivity: Forbidden Humiliation
Overview: Could not find an overview.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-27
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The King of Minami: Business Loans - The Guarantor's Trap
Overview: #33 in the King of Minami series. The CEO of a health food start-up borrows money from Manda using his fiancee's house as collateral, but when his American supplier demands more money than expected, he turns to a business loan company to make up the difference. Meanwhile, a hapless festival merchant turns to Manda when a run-in with the yakuza threatens to derail his business.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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The King of Minami: First & Second Yen
Overview: #4 in the King of Minami series, featuring two stories from the manga. In "High Interest Marriage," Manda helps a woman pull a reverse marital fraud on the man who took advantage of her. Then, in "Ten Million Yen Woman," a man agrees to pay 10 million yen for a one night stand, but ends up seeking Manda's help to avoid paying his debt.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-26
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The King of Minami: Recollection
Overview: #23 in the series, following the Five Hour Special.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-01
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Red Foliage
Overview: Horror director Toshiharu Ikeda adapts a story by Baku Akae about a high-school student who falls in love with a woman on a school trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-13
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The King of Minami: Ginjiro vs. Liquidator
Overview: #5 in the King of Minami series and the second film to be released theatrically. Manda's original apprentice, Ryuichi, resurfaces after being targeted by the yakuza in Kobe. Meanwhile, Manda hounds a factory owner named Yanagida for his interest payments, only to discover that he's only one of many victims of the evil liquidator Gennai, who profits off of other companies' bankruptcy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-26
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The King of Minami: Sweet Trap
Overview: #10 in the series, after "Bankruptcy Takeover."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-04
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The King of Minami: Sham Marriage
Overview: #11 in the series, after "Sweet Trap."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-11
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The King of Minami: Futures Trading Hell
Overview: #15 in the series, after "Ginjiro vs. The Evil Lawyer."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-26
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The King of Minami: Con Man's Fate
Overview: #16 in the series, after "Futures Trading Hell."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 5
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 2
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 3
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 4
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance
Overview: #26 in the series, following "Trans Woman Blues."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-12
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The School of Chaos
Overview: Based on the manga by Tetsu Kariya and Ryouichi Ikegami.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-09-20
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Our Wedding
Overview: On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. The attacker is thought to be an ex-girlfriend of Tsutomu, the groom. He gives two names to the police but these two are still alive. But there is still one woman in Tsutomu's mind...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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Memory & Desire
Overview: Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have the freedom to express their love away from her repressive influence. However, on what should be the happiest of days, Keiji is drowned and Sayo must, by custom, return to live with her cruel and selfish mother-in-law.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Tarao Bannai
Overview: Legendary detective returns.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-08
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Hold Me and Kiss Me
Overview: Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-14
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Evil of Dracula
Overview: A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-20
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Cabaret Diary
Overview: The story of lovers in "Miss Nippon" cabaret in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, where a strict, almost martial, code is followed among employees to bring the business to the top. Workers must follow the rules and a "no relations between workers" policy that's tightly enforced.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-25
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The Brutal Insanity of Love
Overview: A policewoman (Megumi Yokoyama) investigates the apparent suicide of a college coed. The prime suspects include the girl's professor, who may have been having an affair with her, and the professor's wife, who frequents lesbian bars. Gruesome axe murders and mutilations ensue, leading Yokoyama to a shocking discovery.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-26
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Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-08-27
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The King of Minami: Ginjiro Manda
Overview: First in the long-running series starring Riki Takeuchi as Ginjirō Manda, a loan shark in Osaka's Minami district, who shows off his brilliant debt collector skills against numerous enemies.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-26
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The King of Minami: Planned Bankruptcy
Overview: #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.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-13
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The King of Minami: Loan Shark Law
Overview: #3 in the King of Minami series. Ginjiro Manda sets his sights on a corrupt cop named Tatsuya, who finds himself in debt to Manda after unsuccessfully trying to scam the ruthless loan shark. The pair also find themselves chasing a notorious con artist, who is himself in debt to an even more ruthless real estate tycoon.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-04-23
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The King of Minami: Trans Woman Blues
Overview: #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.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-27
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The King of Minami: Permanent Scar
Overview: #27 in the series, following "Reverse Inheritance."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-26
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The King of Minami: System Finance
Overview: #28 in the series, following "Permanent Scar."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-26
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The King of Minami: Certified Alibi Trap
Overview: #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.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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The King of Minami: Toichi Ransom
Overview: #34 in the series, following "Business Loans - The Guarantor's Trap." Manda teams up with a seasoned con man and an elementary school girl to take on a corrupt lawyer who preys on people unable to pay back their debts.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-12
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The King of Minami: City of Desire
Overview: #13 in the series, after the Special Movie.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-01
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The King of Minami: Ginjiro vs. The Evil Lawyer
Overview: #14 in the series, after "City of Desire."
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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The King of Minami: Con Man Exterminator
Overview: #18 in the series, after "Conspiracy."
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-03-28
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The King of Minami: Revenge Shot
Overview: #21 in the series, following "Waiting Woman."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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The King of Minami: Fallen Women
Overview: #24 in the series, following "Recollection."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-01
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Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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Fossilized Wilderness
Overview: Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his apartment at midnight. When he regains consciousness, the corpse of a foreigner shot with his pistol lies in front of him. Nishina, with the help of his friend and newspaper reporter Mineshima, who believes in his innocence and vows to cooperate, pursues the incident and reveals a conspiracy related with 5,000 kilograms of gold that disappeared at the end of the WW2.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-17
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A Samurai's Sorrow: The Deadly Sword
Overview: The second installment of the special drama "Kawaiteshimau" features Masakazu Tamura playing the role of "Udege Shujo," the official taster for the shogunate. Tamura's unmatched charm in portraying cynical characters is fully showcased in this exhilarating period drama. Audiences can thoroughly enjoy the familiar "Ten'ichibō Incident" in this lively historical play.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-26
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Villain Encyclopedia 2
Overview: Noboru and Junko continue to play honey traps on amateurs. One day, unaware of the danger involved, they accept a job to "receive an attaché case from a woman and hand it over to a customer." The moment they receive the suitcase from the woman on the terrace on the designated day, a dangerous story begins. The second film in the series starring Abe Hiroshi.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-08-20
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