Rent Big Time Gambling Boss (1968)
3.7 of 5 from 54 ratings
1h 35min
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- Synopsis:
- Tokyo, 1934. Gang boss Arakawa is too ill and a successor must be named. The choice falls on Nakai (Kôji Tsuruta), but being an outsider he refuses and suggests senior clansman Matsuda (Tomisaburô Wakayama) instead. But Matsuda is in jail and the elders won't wait for his release, so they appoint the younger and more malleable Ishido to take the reins. Clan honour and loyalties are severely tested when Matsuda is released, resulting in an increasingly violent internal strife. 'Big Time Gambling Boss' is one of the all-time classics of the yakuza genre. Paul Schrader called it the richest and most complex film of its type, while novelist Yukio Mishima hailed it as a masterpiece.
- Actors:
- Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Hiroshi Nawa, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Hideto Kagawa, Michiyo Hattori, Shin'ichirô Mikami, Chiyo Okada, Masaru Ohki, Kinji Nakamura, Harumi Sone, Yôichi Numabe, Michimaro Otabe, Isao Takanami, Takamura Sasaki, Akecho Sogamawariya, Kensaku Hara, Masao Hori, Ryôta Minowada
- Directors:
- Kôsaku Yamashita
- Producers:
- Hiroshige Gotô, Keiichi Hashimoto
- Writers:
- Kazuo Kasahara
- Aka:
- Bakuchiuci: Sôchô Tobaku
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 02/01/2023
- Run Time:
- 95 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Ninkyo 101: A masterclass with Mark Schilling, author of The Yakuza Movie Book, on the history and impact of the classical style of yakuza genre
- Serial Gambling: A visual essay by genre expert Chris D., author of Gun and Sword: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980, on the film and its place within the period and genre
- Gallery of promotional imagery
- Trailer
