Cast
Koji Tsuruta
Isamu Nagato
Yuko Hama
Rinichi Yamamoto
Ken Sudo
Takashi Ebata
Shōtarō Hayashi
Michimaro Otabe
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Hiroko Sakaki
Harue Tone
Kinzō Shin
Tatsuo Endō
Shōgo Shimada
Tomisaburō Wakayama
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A Gambler's Certain Death
19691h 33mDirected by Kiyoshi Saeki
Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt trap by a rotten gambling den owner (Tatsuo Endo) and his dishonest card dealer (Isamu Nagato). The plot is standard stuff and features too much talk, but there's also a decent balance between melodrama and lyricism in the form and storytelling. Tsuruta was a perfect fit for these kind of roles, with the stoic and emotional sides nicely mixed in his screen persona.
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