TV series
Kaiji
Overview
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.
Details
- First air date
- 2007-10-03
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 2 seasons
- Episodes
- 52 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Drama
- Network
- Nippon TV
- Production
- Madhouse
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Masato Hagiwara as Kaiji (voice)
- Fumihiko Tachiki as Narrator (voice)
- Youichi Nishijima as Man in Black (voice)
- Yukitoshi Tokumoto as No. 7 (voice)
- Kunihiro Kawamoto as Murakami (voice)
- Nobuaki Kanemitsu as Yokoi (voice)
- Masane Tsukayama as Hyodo (voice)
- Yuichi Nakamura as No. 10 (voice)
- Ichitaro Ai as Hashimoto (voice)
- Masato Kaji as Maeda (voice)
- Naoya Uchida as Endo (voice)
- Koji Yusa as Miyoshi (voice)
Creators and crew
- Yoshifumi Sueda - Director
- Nanako Shimazaki - Director
- Kazuyuki Fudeyasu - Writer
- Mitsutaka Hirota - Writer
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