A Gambler's Certain Death

A Gambler's Certain Death — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 6, 1969
• Runtime
• 93 min
• Genres
• Crime
• Director
• Kiyoshi Saeki

A Gambler's Certain Death — Cast

Koji Tsuruta Isamu Nagato Yuko Hama Rinichi Yamamoto Ken Sudo Takashi Ebata Shōtarō Hayashi Michimaro Otabe