Kaiji 2007
- Animation, Drama, Crime
- 23 min episodes
- 2 seasons
- 52 episodes
- Ended
- TV-MA
Kaiji Itou is a good-for-nothing loiterer who spends his days drinking beer and stealing hubcaps—that is, until he ends up being tricked by his former co-worker. Unable to suddenly repay his friend's huge debt all by himself, Kaiji is offered a shady deal to participate in an illegal underground gamble on a cruise ship. This turns out to be nothing more than the beginning of his new life of hell—thrown headlong into a life-threatening roller coaster of mind games, cheating, and deceit.
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Contemporary, relentless, classical in form and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- movievarmaon TMDB · May 20238/10
Good one in adult genre
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Cast
- Masato HagiwaraKaiji (voice)
- Fumihiko TachikiNarrator (voice)
Crew
- Hideki TaniuchiOriginal Music Composer
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Seasons
- Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor26 eps · 2007
- Kaiji: Against All Rules26 eps · 2011
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