Dec 28, 1968
98 min
Full-HD

Gambler Biography (1968)

Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.

Category

Crime

Country

Japan

Companies

Toei Company

Koji Tsuruta

Yûjirô Wakamatsu

Minoru Ōki

Osamu Kawada

Sanae Kitabayashi

Nobuko Kawada

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Adachi Sanji

Sumiko Fuji

Kasuya

Ken Takakura

Saburo Kitajima

Kôhei Kozakura

Masumi Tachibana

Okumi

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