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Kaiji: Jinsei gyakuten gêmu

  • 2009
  • 2h 10m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
2.2K
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Kaiji: Jinsei gyakuten gêmu (2009)
Kaiji Ito (Fujiwara) moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalising cars, and drinking. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect payment. She then offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt and possibly make a whole lot more. Meanwhile, the unscrupulous Endo is actually conning Kaiji, believing he won't come back from his voyage. Kaiji is then up for the night of his lifeÂ…Â…
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Kaiji, a young gambler who is constantly in debt, enters a deadly gambling competition in order to wipe away his loans.Kaiji, a young gambler who is constantly in debt, enters a deadly gambling competition in order to wipe away his loans.Kaiji, a young gambler who is constantly in debt, enters a deadly gambling competition in order to wipe away his loans.

  • Director
    • Tôya Satô
  • Writers
    • Nobuyuki Fukumoto
    • Mika Ohmori
  • Stars
    • Tatsuya Fujiwara
    • Ken'ichi Matsuyama
    • Yuriko Yoshitaka
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    2.2K
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    • Director
      • Tôya Satô
    • Writers
      • Nobuyuki Fukumoto
      • Mika Ohmori
    • Stars
      • Tatsuya Fujiwara
      • Ken'ichi Matsuyama
      • Yuriko Yoshitaka
    • 15User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Tatsuya Fujiwara
    Tatsuya Fujiwara
    • Kaiji Ito
    Ken'ichi Matsuyama
    Ken'ichi Matsuyama
    • Makoto Sahara
    Yuriko Yoshitaka
    • Yasuda…
    Yûki Amami
    Yûki Amami
    • Rinko Endo
    Kei Satô
    Kei Satô
    • Kazutaka Okada
    Teruyuki Kagawa
    Teruyuki Kagawa
    • Yukio Tonegawa
    Tarô Yamamoto
    Tarô Yamamoto
    • Joji Funai
    Takuma Anzai
    Takuma Anzai
    Shogen
    Shogen
    • Majima
    Ken Mitsuishi
    • Koji Ishida
    Shôhei Uno
    • Participant #2 of Brave Men Road
    Masako Motai
    Masako Motai
    • Houseboat Proprietress
    Nobuyuki Fukumoto
    Nobuyuki Fukumoto
    • Black Suit A
    Sôtarô
    Sôtarô
    • Kitami
    Suzuki Matsuo
    • Taro Otsuki
    Yasuhi Nakamura
    • Ota
    Ryushin Tei
    Ryushin Tei
    • Participant #4 of Brave Men Road
    Hajime Taniguchi
    • Director
      • Tôya Satô
    • Writers
      • Nobuyuki Fukumoto
      • Mika Ohmori
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    10christophersanchez-26752

    Cant find it

    Whate can I watch it I have been trying to watch it every where in sub English so can someone pleas help me find it english sub i heard its really good so I want to watch it I can only find it Japanes raw bud.
    9exodusman

    Jan-Ken-Pon & E-Card

    Kaiji is an awesome movie. It shown how to play Jan-Ken-Pon (Rock- Paper-Scissors) in Japan which very popular games. Which under the debt pressure, he join the other play in Espoir ship (means Hope in French). This is where he lost, work underground as slave, pay with underground money called Peria, and challenge to join Brave Road (to survive and return above ground).

    When he made an final, he should play card with Tonegawa. Play E-Card (Emperor-Slave-Citizen) to win his freedom and clearing his debt. He lost because of Tonegawa using cheap trick. Using Chip that control and know the users heartbeat, but he lost cause Kaiji too excited winning the last round and make Tonegawa fallen on his own trick.
    6Thanos_Alfie

    The start of Kaiji...

    "Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler" is a Drama movie in which we watch a young gambler participating on a deadly gambling competition in order to gain some money and wipe away his debts that constantly rise.

    I enjoyed this movie because it was interesting, it had a simple but nice plot and it also contained plenty of suspense and mystery. The direction which was made by Tôya Satô was very good and he succeeded on maintaining the tension high through the whole duration of the film while he presented very well both his main characters and the plot. In addition to this, the interpretation of Tatsuya Fujiwara who played as Kaiji Ito was very good and he made the difference. All in all, I have to say that "Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler" is a great start of a trilogy and I highly recommend everyone to watch it.
    10george_a_romero

    Brilliant!

    The colourful cast of Death Note (2006) reunite for this inspired manga/anime adaptation. It is a riveting sizzler of a movie made with nerve-jangling Japanese brutality. Kaiji is a down and out thirty-year-old blue-collar loser who has no luck in life. He is bored of his dead-end job at the hypermarket, irritated that pompous and prosperous people drive around in Mercedes and depressed that he never has enough dough to rise above his comatose lifestyle. One day, a debt collector arrives at his flat to offer him the chance to change his empty existence: go on a cruise with other down and outs, gamble, and repay his debts in the ultimate game of deception. If you win, you start your life afresh, if you lose, well, you will never want to fool around with rock-paper-scissors again because Brave Men Road is the only way to escape 15-years of forced underground slave labour.

    Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009) examines the languor of Japanese consumer culture: work, devour, and squander your verve in an everlasting cycle of mass suppression that upholds the lower-class/upper-class divide. This regimented Metropolis style nightmare comes to fruition in the symbolic utopian underground kingdom that blue-collar slave workers must construct for aristocratic city-dwellers. The languid masses march in union, take showers together and buy beer and munchies with their meagre pay to nullify and distract themselves from their authoritarianism. The moral at the heart of Kaiji is simple: if you want to achieve your dreams in this hum/drum existence, you have to wake up, fight, and live recklessly. Would you be willing to walk across an electrified beam between two skyscrapers to pay off your debts while superficial business executives watch you on television screens? If you want to rise above your own worthless comatose lifestyle, why not take up the challenge, you could win lots of money because that is what Brave Men Road is all about, or is it… Verdict: This riveting Battle Royale intoned masterpiece is made with nail-biting suspense, brain-teasing intelligence and mind-blowing wit:-
    9mommedahmed

    Kaiji the GOAT!

    After watching the first and second season of the anime i have watched this wonderful movie, the movie is not epic as the manga, but it was pretty good, it's very difficult to make a 2 hours movie from one season, but the actors were very impressive, i was very excited from the beginning of the movie until the end, if you didn't watch the anime , trust me you're missing a lot!

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    • Trivia
      Nobuyuki Fukumoto, creator of the "Kaiji" manga on which this film is based, appears in the film as a black-suited man.
    • Quotes

      Yukio Tonegawa: A Slave... why? Didn't you swap it before the blood sprayed on it?

      Kaiji Ito: Sorry, but no. All I did was pull the face down Citizen and Slave cards close to me, then put a Citizen card over one, only to pull it back. In other words, I only pretended to swap.

      Rinko Endo: He didn't swap them?

      Yukio Tonegawa: Impossible! HOW COULD THIS BE POSSIBLE? WHY, WHY DIDN'T YOU SWAP THEM?

      Kaiji Ito: That's easy. Because I had faith.

      Yukio Tonegawa: Faith?

      Kaiji Ito: Clearly, you're brilliant. Out of anyone I've ever met, you have the sharpest mind.

      [holds up a blood-stained card]

      Kaiji Ito: A man like you... would never fail to notice this blood. Of course you'd notice. And when you do, you'd be suspicious. You'd scrutinize it, realize it's a scheme and see through my plan.

      [slams the card down on the table]

      Kaiji Ito: YOU HAVE TO, BECAUSE YOU'RE SMART! That's why you'd be suspicious, and would recall how I'd swapped cards on the ship, and that I had the chance here. Then you'd snicker... how foolish I am. You'd be completely convinced. And why not? After all, your opponent is trash compared to someone like you. TRASH! You'd gloat. Because you're superior. NO TRASH HAS EVER COME CLOSE TO BEATING YOU. SO I USED YOUR ARROGANT SUPERIORITY AGAINST YOU! AND THIS PATHETIC SLAVE BEAT YOU!

    • Crazy credits
      The Nippon Television Network Corporation logo is accompanied by a ghoulish chant of "zawa".
    • Connections
      Followed by Kaiji 2: Jinsei dakkai gêmu (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      It's All Too Much
      Performed by Yui

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    • Release date
      • October 10, 2009 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
    • Filming locations
      • Kiryu, Gunma, Japan
    • Production companies
      • Nippon Television Network (NTV)
      • Horipro
      • Toho
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $24,709,016
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 10 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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