Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

130 mins | Drama, Thriller | Oct. 10, 2009

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.

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

130 mins | Drama, Thriller | Oct. 10, 2009

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
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.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Toho Company, Ltd., Horipro, Nippon Television Network Corporation
Original title カイジ 人生逆転ゲーム
Directors Tōya Satō
Writers Nobuyuki Fukumoto, Mika Ohmori

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara

as Kaiji Ito

Kenichi Matsuyama

as Makoto Sahara

Tarō Yamamoto

as Joji Funai

Teruyuki Kagawa

as Yukio Tonegawa

Yuki Amami

as Rinko Endo

Ken Mitsuishi

as Koji Ishida

Kei Satō

as Kazutaka Okada

Suzuki Matsuo

as Taro Otsuki

Shogen

as Majima