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* Schilling, Mark (2003). ''The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films''. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. pp. 162-164. ISBN 1-880656-76-0.
 
* Schilling, Mark (2003). ''The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films''. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. pp. 162-164. ISBN 1-880656-76-0.
 
* [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1968/cr000140.htm "博奕打ち 総長賭博"] (in Japanese). [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/ Japanese Movie Database]. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
 
* [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1968/cr000140.htm "博奕打ち 総長賭博"] (in Japanese). [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/ Japanese Movie Database]. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
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* Gambling in Japan<ref>[https://www.casinoonline.jp/basic/onlinecasino-law/]</ref>
   
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Revision as of 00:02, 30 July 2020

Gambler: The Great Casino
Gambler - The Great Casino
Theatrical poster to Gambler: The Great Casino
Directed by Kōsaku Yamashita[1]
Written by Kazuo Kasahara
Music by Toshiaki Tsushima
Cinematography Nagaki Yamagishi
Editing by Shinjirō Miyamoto
Distributed by Toei
Released January 14, 1968
Running time 94 min.
Preceded by Gamblers: Invincible Game
Followed by Gambler: The Raid
IMDb profile
JMDb profile

Gambler: The Great Casino (博奕打ち 総長賭博 Bakuchi-uchi: Sōchō tobaku) aka The Big Gambling Ceremony and Big Time Gambling Boss is a 1968 Yakuza film directed by Kōsaku Yamashita. It is the fourth film in the Bakuchi-uchi (Gambler) series, and is regarded as the best of Toei's yakuza films.[2] Yukio Mishima wrote in the March 1969 issue of Eiga Geijutsu, "[it] resembles the ancient tragedies-- it breathes with human reality."[2]

Cast

  • Kōji Tsuruta ... Shinjirō Nakai[3]
  • Tomisaburō Wakayama ... Tetsuo Matsuda
  • Hiroshi Nawa ... Kōhei Ishido
  • Nobuo Kaneko ... Tasaburō Sannami
  • Hiroko Sakuramachi ... Tsuyako
  • Junko Fuji ... Hiroe
  • Hideto Kagawa ... Minoru
  • Michiyo Hattori ... Kumi
  • Chiyo Okada ... Toshiko
  • Shin'ichirō Mikami ... Otokichi Kobayashi
  • Masaru Ōki ... Kiyoshi Nagao
  • Kinji Nakamura ... Yūsaku Aoki
  • Harumi Sone ... Iwakichi Mizutani
  • Yōichi Numabe ... Susumu Noguchi
  • Michimaro Otabe ... Tsuneji Kitagawa
  • Isao Takanami ... Numata
  • Takamaru Sasaki ... Gisuke Kawashima
  • Akechō Sogamawariya ... Uichirō Nishio
  • Kensaku Hara ... Tomojirō Goi
  • Masao Hori ... Sadazō Sakagami
  • Ryōta Minowada ... Sakichi Ichikawa
  • Eijirō Sekine ... Seinosuke Takeshita
  • Ichitarō Kuni ... Sōnosuke Iwakura
  • Shintarō Nasu ... Risuke Shibata
  • Akira Hirasawa ... Hyōkichi Hayakawa
  • Kaneya Suzuki ... Kenji
  • Nobuo Kitagawa ... Joe
  • Izumi Noguchi ... Akira
  • Keishirō Kojima ... Konishi
  • Mitsukazu Kawamura ... Young Man A
  • Kuniomi Kitani ... Young Man B

Bibliography

Notes

  1. "博奕打ち 総長賭博" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Schilling, Mark (2003). The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. p. 164. ISBN 1-880656-76-0.
  3. Cowie, Peter (editor) (1977). World Filmography 1968. London: Tantivy Press. p. 358. ISBN 0-904208-36-2.
  4. [1]