The read
A Balasaur Score of 65 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.4/10. The highest scoring of the 3 titles in its series.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
81 audience votes
Key crew
- Tōya SatōDirector
- Mika OhmoriScreenplay
- Nobuyuki FukumotoScreenplay
- Yugo KannoOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Tatsuya FujiwaraKaiji Ito
- Yuki AmamiRinko Endo
- Teruyuki KagawaYukio Tonegawa
- Taro YamamotoJoji Funai
- Ken MitsuishiKoji Ishida
- Yuriko YoshitakaHiromi Ishida
- Suzuki MatsuoTaro Otsuki
- Kei SatōKazutaka Hyodo
- Kenichi MatsuyamaMakoto Sahara
- ShogenSatoru Majima
- Ryuji SaineiKensuke Isawa
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