Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Kaiji: Jinsei gyakuten gêmu
2009, Film, 130 min, Drama, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 66
Life or death... on the turn of a card!
Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money owed. The debt collector offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt & possibly make a boat load of money. Could the debt collector Endo actually be setting up Kaiji? One way or another, for Kaiji it's going to be the night of his life.
Directed by Tōya Satō
Cast
- Tatsuya Fujiwara as Kaiji Itô
- Yûki Amami as Rinko Endô
- Tarô Yamamoto as Jôji Funai
- Ken Mitsuishi as Kôji Ishida
- Yuriko Yoshitaka as Ishida Hiromi
- Masako Motai as Houseboat Proprietress
- Ken'ichi Matsuyama as Makoto Sahara
- Kei Satō as Kazutaka Okada
- Suzuki Matsuo as Tarô Ôtsuki
- Teruyuki Kagawa as Yukio Tonegawa
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