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The King (1973)

1h 41m · 19 May 1973
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Sakata Sankichi, an amateur shogi player living in the slums of Osaka, is so obsessed with the board game that he spends all of his family's money to keep playing in the hope of defeating star player Sekine.

Movie ID44339
GenreDrama
DirectorHiromichi Horikawa
Main castShintarō Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tamao Nakamura, Mikiko Otonashi, Makoto Fujita, Kan Taniguchi, Tomo'o Nagai, Kenzō Tabu
Release date19 May 1973
Release year1973
LanguageJapanese
Duration101 min (1h 41m)
Rating–
Production houseTOHO

Director: Hiromichi Horikawa
Writers: Ryōzō Kasahara

Top cast

Shintarō KatsuSankichi Sakata Tatsuya NakadaiKinjiro Sekine Tamao NakamuraKoharu Sakata Mikiko OtonashiTamae Sakata Makoto FujitaShinkichi
Kan TaniguchiTakahama
Tomo'o NagaiDr. Kikuoka Kenzō TabuKojima
Masao ImanishiTamiya
Takamaru SasakiKobayashi Tōhakusai Takao ZushiKoizumi
Fukami HarueOkane
Kazuya OguriOgura
Tetsuo MorishitaShinohara Katsuhiko SasakiYamada
Dai NagasawaMiyamatsu
Ichirō RyūzakiCount Yanagisawa Hideo MurataMachida Kazuo KatōDoctor Haruo SuzukiNewspaper reporter

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