The King (1962)
王将
The life story of the shogi master & maniac Sankichi Sakata in the Meiji era.
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.
- Date of release
- 1962-11-23
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Daisuke Itō
Casting
- Rentaro Mikuni — Sankichi Sakata
- Chikage Awashima
- Yoshiko Mita
- Hideo Murata
- Sonny Chiba
- Mikijiro Hira
- Tokue Hanazawa
- Ryōsuke Kagawa
- Taiji Tonoyama
- Tsûsai Sugawara
- Akira Tani
- Takashi Kanda
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