Movie reccomendation: Kaiji

Summary:


After graduating from high school in 1996 in Japan, Itō Kaiji moves to Tokyo to get a job, but he fails to find steady employment because of his eccentric disposition and because the country is mired in its first recession since World War II. Depressed, he festers in his apartment, biding the time with cheap pranks, gambles, liquor and cigarettes. Kaiji is always thinking about money and his perpetual poverty frequently brings him to tears.

Kaiji's unrelenting misery continues for two years until he is paid an unexpected visit from a man named Endō, who wants to collect an outstanding debt owed to him in Kaiji's name. Endō gives Kaiji two options - either spend ten years to repay this outstanding debt, or board the gambling ship Espoir ("hope" in French) for one night to clear the debt. Using a con, Endō pressures Kaiji into accepting the deal, believing he will never come back from the ship.



Rating: 5+/6





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Reccomendation:

A movie about the one biggest curse that we human have, money, and our gried to obtain these even with using the most dirtiest ways.


Even though the plot is something we have seen in a lot of movies, and its strong resemblance to
"liar game " drama its actually a very good movie.


I got to admit that i was quite hooked from the start of it.


The movie itself is well made and a good script. Nice work on the charactears, they dont stay round in this movie. They change quite much. The "loosers" switches roles with the rich powerful bastards when they find out that its actually never to late to change the way you are.


A new chanse will always come for the person who tries their hardest.





It was quite fun to see L and Light reunited in a movie finally. A huge charactear change. Ken`ichi Matsuyama as the smart detective L and Tatsuya Fujiwara as the deadly Kira/Light, suddenlt turns into harmless loosers. For me this might be the most seriouse role i seen Ken`ichi Matsuyama in so far. But in all i think they both did a great job, even though i might not be the biggest fan of Tatsuya Fujiwara i got to admit that this is one of his better movies.





If i read correctly theres an 26 episode long anime and a manga to of this series, which i sooner or later will take my time to watch and read. Hopefully and most likly their as good as the movie. I really liked it and it worth a watch if you like these types of game movies.