Series

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.

AnimationDramaCrimegamblingbased on mangaillegal gamblingseinenanimegambling addictionstrategy gamepsychologicalsuspensesuspensefulNippon TV

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Contemporary, earnest, relentless and classical in form.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • earnestironic
  • contemplativerelentless
  • classical in formformally daring
  • gravecomic

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