A Gambler's Certain Death (1969)
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.
Cast
Koji Tsuruta
Isamu Nagato
Yuko Hama
Rinichi Yamamoto
Ken Sudo
Takashi Ebata
Shōtarō Hayashi
Michimaro Otabe
Harue Tone
Kinzō Shin
Tatsuo Endō
Shōgo Shimada
Tomisaburō Wakayama
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