The best Tōru Minegishi’s comedy movies

Tōru Minegishi

Tōru Minegishi

17/07/1943- 11/10/2008
We present our ranking of the best Tōru Minegishi’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Tōru Minegishi.

Fudoh: The New Generation

Fudoh: The New Generation
7/10
In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/05/1990
  • Character: Hideo Yoshikawa
Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything else. He meets Yumeko (Chikako Aoyama), an innocent but dangerous narcoleptic runaway, after she steals his car, and she soon moves in with him. Following the assassination of a high-ranking member by the Kazama Family, Junko is called on to be the lookout while the family gets revenge. However, the other men quickly "zoom", or escape from their duty, leaving the task to Junko. Will he take out Kazama, or will he zoom?

School in the Crosshairs

School in the Crosshairs
6.4/10
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student… Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka's powers to the ultimate test!

Miss Lonely

Miss Lonely
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/04/1985
  • Character: Kazuo's father
A lonely high schooler suddenly meets the love of his life out of thin air. Is she a real person or a figment of his imagination?

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/10/1986
  • Character: Sakae's Father
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her. With surprising moments of caricature and slapstick, Obayashi celebrates the anarchic world of adolescence while also satirizing adult hypocrisy and conformism.

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 14/07/1979
  • Character: Visitor in "The Woman in the Eye"
Obayashi’s take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.

Capone Cries a Lot

Capone Cries a Lot
6.3/10
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Light of Africa

Light of Africa
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/06/1975
  • Character: Mineichi
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

I'm Dandy

I'm Dandy
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/08/1989
A middle-aged salaryman tries to revitalize his career.

Poisson d'Avril

Poisson d'Avril
6.2/10
A romantic comedy involving shooting commercials, French food, and island visitors.

Watashi no kokoro wa papa no mono

Watashi no kokoro wa papa no mono
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/11/1988
  • Character: Teacher Tagawa

Dai yonige: Yonigeya hompo 3

Dai yonige: Yonigeya hompo 3
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/02/1995
  • Character: Ichiro Mochizuki

Big Boobs Buster

Big Boobs Buster
5.9/10
Another buxom bombshell falls prey to the masked vigilante, the Big Boobs Buster! Rumor has it that the vengeful villainess was once a mild mannered student ridiculed and rejected for her small bust size. Now, the spurned woman gets even by donning a ridiculous costume and taunting her well-endowed nemeses. Will bouncy coeds across the land be forced under cover? Is any bosomy beauty safe from the Big Boobs Buster?

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