# Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler (2011)

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**Original title**: *カイジ2 人生奪回ゲーム*
**Runtime**: 133 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
**Directed by**: Tōya Satō
**Written by**: Nobuyuki Fukumoto, Sachiko Ôguchi, Jun'ya Yamazaki
**Starring**: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yūsuke Iseya, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Katsuhisa Namase, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yoshizumi Ito

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rainy Tokyo streets at dusk a pachinko parlor's neon hum 
Kaiji toils in underground labor 
A 14 day deadline to save his fellow workers looms in Tōya Satō's game of survival

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, raw

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