A Gambler's Certain Death

必殺博奕打ち

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.

Screenplay

Gorō Tanada

Director

Kiyoshi Saeki

Music

Masanobu Higurashi

Status

Released

Release date

06/09/1969

Original language

Japanese