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.

Cast (14)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Koji Tsuruta

Isamu Nagato

Yuko Hama

Rinichi Yamamoto

Ken Sudo

Takashi Ebata

Shōtarō Hayashi

Michimaro Otabe

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Hiroko Sakaki

Harue Tone

Kinzō Shin

Tatsuo Endō

Shōgo Shimada

Tomisaburō Wakayama

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