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.
Genre: Crime
Stars: Koji Tsuruta, Isamu Nagato, Yuko Hama, Rinichi Yamamoto, Ken Sudo, Takashi Ebata
Crew: Gorō Tanada (Screenplay), Kiyoshi Saeki (Director), Akira Ishihara (Art Direction), Shigeru Akatsuka (Director of Photography), Kozo Horiike (Editor), Masanobu Higurashi (Original Music Composer)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Toei Company
Runtime: 93 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Sep 06, 1969
IMDb: 10
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