A Gambler's Certain Death (1969)
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.
Released: Sep 06, 1969
Runtime: 93 minutes
Genre: Crime
Stars: Koji Tsuruta, Isamu Nagato, Yuko Hama, Rinichi Yamamoto, Ken Sudo, Takashi Ebata
Crew: Kiyoshi Saeki (Director), Gorō Tanada (Screenplay), Shigeru Akatsuka (Director of Photography), Masanobu Higurashi (Original Music Composer), Akira Ishihara (Art Direction), Kozo Horiike (Editor)