Movielogr
A Gambler's Certain Death (1969)
Directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
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.
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Koji Tsuruta | Isamu Nagato | Yuko Hama | Rinichi Yamamoto | Ken Sudo | Takashi Ebata | Shôtarô Hayashi | Otabe Michimaro | Hiroko Sakaki | Harue Tone | Kinzô Shin | Tatsuo Endô | Shôgo Shimada | Tomisaburo Wakayama