A Gambler's Certain Death

The story

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.

Cast

K Koji Tsuruta I Isamu Nagato Y Yuko Hama R Rinichi Yamamoto K Ken Sudo T Takashi Ebata S Shōtarō Hayashi M Michimaro Otabe H Hiroko Sakaki H Harue Tone K Kinzō Shin T Tatsuo Endō

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S Shōgo Shimada T Tomisaburō Wakayama