

A Gambler's Certain Death
1969 Directed by Kiyoshi SaekiPart 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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Koji Tsuruta
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Isamu Nagato
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Yuko Hama
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Rinichi Yamamoto
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Ken Sudo
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Takashi Ebata
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Shōtarō Hayashi
....................................................Director
...........................................................Kiyoshi Saeki
Screenplay
...........................................................Gorō Tanada
Director of Photography
...........................................................Shigeru Akatsuka
Original Music Composer
...........................................................Masanobu Higurashi
Art Direction
...........................................................Akira Ishihara
Editor
...........................................................Kozo Horiike
Production Companies
...................................................Toei Company
Production Countries
........................................................Japan
Spoken Languages
....................................................日本語
Genres
....................................................Crime
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