#1411 Kaiji

Title: Kaiji/Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Japanese Title: カイジ/ カイジ　人生逆転ゲーム/Kaiji: Jinsei gyakuten gêmu
Chinese Title: 賭博默示錄
Year: 2009
Country: Japan
Running Time: 130 min
Director: Toya Sato
Genre: Drama/Gambler
Rating: 7.7

This movie is based on Nobuyuki Fukumoto's manga "Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji"

What rich people can do with poor people!
A sick game to "win" your own freedom back!

The movie was very exciting!
Just want to know what gonna happen every scene!!
It's a hard ending!
But other side it was funny!
Just start where we begin!

The special effect with the coin was very cool! LOL

Great performance by Tatsuya Fujiwara.
Well like always!!
He's my favorite actor in movies!!
Battle Royale, The Incite Mill!!
Still need to see Death Note!!
We also got Kenichi Matsuyama in here.
Tatsuya co-star in Death Note and good friend!
In a movie from 130 minutes!
He was only in 25 minutes I think LOL

I can't wait for Kaiji 2 end this year!!
Tatsuya also in part 2!!



Summary:
Kaiji is a man who leads a hand-to-mouth existence working half-heartedly at his part-time job at a convenience store. One day, the president of an unscrupulous loan company, named Rinko Endo comes to Kaiji and demands that he clear a debt he cosigned for a friend. With the company's exorbitant interest rate, the amount blown up to 2.02 million yen. Kaiji has no way of getting hold of such money. Endo then says everything will become clear if he boards a ship that leaves at Harumi Port in a few hours. The ship's named Espoir, which means "hope" in French. Kaiji is skeptical at first but when Endo tells him that "it is his change to change his life" he makes up his mind to accept the invitation. That night's game is 'Rock Paper Scissors'. The players are given 12 cards and 3 star badges. The stars are bet as collateral. The players win if they lose all the cards and have at least 3 stars left at the end of the game.. If not, they will be sent to the feared backroom, where they will be forced into hard labor that denies their dignity as human beings for the next few decades. But for Kaiji this "ultimate game that could turn his life around" is merely a prelude. Soon the players are caught up in the violent of whirlwind of fate ...

Cast:
Tatsuya Fujiwara - Kaiji Ito
Yuki Amami - Rinko Endo
Teruyuki Kagawa - Yukio Tonegawa
Ken Mitsuishi - Koji Ishida
Kenichi Matsuyama - Makoto Sahara
Kei Sato - Kazutuka Hyoto
Suzuki Matsuo - Taro Otsuki
Taro Yamamoto - Joji Funai

Trailer:


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