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The King (1973)
Directed by Hiromichi Horikawa
Drama · 1h 41m
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.
Cast
Shintarō Katsu
Sankichi Sakata
Tatsuya Nakadai
Kinjiro Sekine
Tamao Nakamura
Koharu Sakata
Mikiko Otonashi
Tamae Sakata
Makoto Fujita
Shinkichi
K
Kan Taniguchi
Takahama
Tomo'o Nagai
Dr. Kikuoka
Kenzō Tabu
Kojima
M
Masao Imanishi
Tamiya
Takamaru Sasaki
Kobayashi Tōhakusai
Takao Zushi
Koizumi
F
Fukami Harue
Okane
Crew
- Director
- Hiromichi Horikawa
- Screenplay
- Ryōzō Kasahara
- Novel
- Hideji Hōjō
- Director of Photography
- Yuzuru Aizawa
- Original Music Composer
- Masaru Satō
- Editor
- Yoshitami Kuroiwa
- Producer
- Sanezumi Fujimoto, Michio Morioka
Details
- Original title
- 王将
- Release date
- 1973-05-19
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO, Toho Pictures