City of Desire No.1 - The Road to Retribution

City of Desire No.1 - The Road to Retribution

THE FAMOUS LOAN SHARK OF MINAMI IS BACK!

2023 · 70 min · Crime

The flavour of the popular King of Minami series , starring Riki Takeuchi, is back after 15 years. A new story of a man who judges evil not with violence but with the law in order to achieve retribution. Six months after serving a nine-year prison sentence for murder, a man appears in Minami, Osaka . He is joined by like-minded lawyers Sugiyama and private detective Shimizu, who cut their way into a fraudulent medical trial at a university hospital. Eventually, the dark side of the hospital's management comes to light...

Directed by Sadaaki Haginiwa · Written by Itaru Era

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