A Gambler's Certain Death

Name: A Gambler's Certain Death
Director: Kiyoshi Saeki
Genre: Crime
Released: 1969-09-06
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Koji Tsuruta, Isamu Nagato, Yuko Hama, Rinichi Yamamoto, Ken Sudo

Directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

Crime

19691h 33m

Overview

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.