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.
Title: Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Release Date: 2009-10-10
Runtime: 130 minutes
Director: Tōya Satō
Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Taro Yamamoto, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yuki Amami, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Kei Satō, Suzuki Matsuo, Ryushin Tei
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Rating: ★★★★☆ • 6.8 / 10
TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37961
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