Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009)
Kaiji: Jinsei gyakuten gêmu
130 min
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.
- Release date
- October 10, 2009
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Yûgo Kanno
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Trailer
Cast
- Tatsuya Fujiwara as Kaiji Itô
- Yûki Amami as Rinko Endô
- Teruyuki Kagawa as Yukio Tonegawa
- Tarô Yamamoto as Jôji Funai
- Ken Mitsuishi as Kôji Ishida
- Yuriko Yoshitaka as Yasuda
- Suzuki Matsuo as Tarô Ôtsuki
- Kei Satō as Kazutaka Okada
- Ken'ichi Matsuyama as Makoto Sahara
- Shogen as Satoru Majima
- Ryûji Sainei as Kensuke Isawa
- Yuriko Yoshitaka as Ishida Hiromi
- Masako Motai as Houseboat Proprietress
Crew
- Tōya Satō · Director
- Nobuyuki Fukumoto · Writer
- Mika Ohmori · Writer
- Naoto Fujimura · Producer
- Kazuhisa Kitajima · Producer
- Yûgo Kanno · Composer
- Katsumi Yanagijima · Cinematographer