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Gamblers Collection

From 1967 to 1972, Toei produced ten films in the Gamblers / Gambling Den (Bakuchi-uchi) series starring Koji Tsuruta.

10 movies 1967 – 1972 15h 48m total

Movies in this collection

Bakuchi uchi
Bakuchi uchi

Bakuchi uchi

1967 1h 30m Dir. Shigehiro Ozawa

Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta’s back, is now a dissolute, bitter drunk living with his son in law and sickly grandson.

Bakuchi-uchi: Fujimi no shôbu
Bakuchi-uchi: Fujimi no shôbu

Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game.

Bakuchiuchi: Sôchô tobaku
Bakuchiuchi: Sôchô tobaku

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer.

Hissatsu bakuchi-uchi
Hissatsu bakuchi-uchi

Hissatsu bakuchi-uchi

1969 1h 33m Dir. Kiyoshi Saeki

Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt trap by a rotten gambling den owner (Tatsuo Endo) and his dishonest card dealer (Isamu Nagato).

Bakuchi-uchi: Inochi-huda
Bakuchi-uchi: Inochi-huda

Bakuchi-uchi: Inochi-huda

1971 1h 47m Dir. Kōsaku Yamashita

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year later. However, Seijiro gets jailed for five years. Unable to find him, Shizue gets married to a yakuza boss who can help her family business.

Bakuchi-uchi Gaiden
Bakuchi-uchi Gaiden

Bakuchi-uchi Gaiden

1972 1h 43m Dir. Kōsaku Yamashita

When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.