Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji

Casts : Masato Hagiwara and Fumihiko Tachiki

Kaiji (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is a 30 years old loser, who just manages to pay his rent by working at a small shop. He wants to change his life for years already, but that proves to be nothing more than a mere thought. Then, one day, he gets a visit from loan shark Endo (Yuki Amami) who tells him that he has to pay the debt of a friend, for whom he signed a contract of guaranty, since that person has disappeared.

Kaiji is desperate as he will never manage to get together the required amount of money. Endo makes a proposal, though. She invites him to go on the ship “Espoir” where a gigantic gambling contest takes place. If he wins his debt will be cleared. Kaiji agrees, but has to find out that he has completely underestimated the consequences of losing the game. The losers are brought into a labor camp for many years where they have to build an underground city for a lunatic boss of a syndicate. However, the right hand of the boss, Tonegawa (Teruyuki Kagawa), has some other sadistic games he wants to involve his victims in and which they eventually have to pay with their lives. Kaiji finally wants to change his life for real, and most of all wants to regain his freedom. Therefore, he agrees to participate in the perfidious games.