Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009)

カイジ 人生逆転ゲーム

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.

Date of release
2009-10-10
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (81)
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Director
Tōya Satō
Collection
Kaiji Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Kaiji

Kaiji , also known as Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler, is a 2009 Japanese live-action film based on Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji, the first part of the manga series Kaiji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. It is the first installment of the Kaiji film series directed by Tōya Satō and premiered in Japan on October 10, 2009. It was followed by Kaiji 2, released in 2011.

Production

In October 2008, it was announced that the film would be directed by Tōya Satō and Tatsuya Fujiwara would star as Kaiji Itō. The Watarase Film Commission, a non-governmental organization that supports film production, posted a casting call for 70 men between the ages of 20 and 40 to be extras to play contestants of the "restricted rock-paper-scissors" game.

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