Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

Oct 10, 2009

2h 10m

★ 6.8

Overview

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.

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Mystery

Production Companies

TOHO

Horipro

Nippon Television Network Corporation

Fukuoka Broadcasting System

Hiroshima Telecasting

Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company

Shizuoka Daiichi Television

Miyagi Television Broadcasting

Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company

Kodansha

D.N. Dream Partners

VAP

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

AX-ON

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler Trailers

Cast

Kaiji Ito

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Rinko Endo

Yuki Amami

Yukio Tonegawa

Teruyuki Kagawa

Joji Funai

Taro Yamamoto

Koji Ishida

Ken Mitsuishi

Makoto Sahara

Kenichi Matsuyama

Taro Otsuki

Suzuki Matsuo

Kazutaka Okada

Kei Satō

Yasuda, Ishida Hiromi

Yuriko Yoshitaka

Ryushin Tei

Majima

Shogen

Ryuji Sainei

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