A Gambler's Certain Death (1969)
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.
Director:
Kiyoshi Saeki
Writer:
Gorō Tanada
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Koji Tsuruta as |
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Isamu Nagato as |
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Yuko Hama as |
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Rinichi Yamamoto as |
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Ken Sudo as |
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Takashi Ebata as |
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Shōtarō Hayashi as |
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Michimaro Otabe as |
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Hiroko Sakaki as |
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Harue Tone as |
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Kinzō Shin as |
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Tatsuo Endō as |
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Shōgo Shimada as |
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Tomisaburō Wakayama as |
| Directing | Kiyoshi Saeki | Director |
| Writing | Gorō Tanada | Screenplay |
| Editing | Kozo Horiike | Editor |
| Art | Akira Ishihara | Art Direction |
| Sound | Masanobu Higurashi | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Shigeru Akatsuka | Director of Photography |
