Kaiji: Final Game
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- Nobuyuki Fukumoto
- Yūichi Tokunaga
by Nobuyuki Fukumoto
- Keiichi Sawa
- Yoshitaka Hori
- Minami Ichikawa
- Takeshi Kikukawa
- Masatoshi Kakuda
- Masatoshi Yamaguchi
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| Directed by | Tōya Satō |
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| Based on | Kaiji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto |
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| Cinematography | Takashi Ohara |
| Edited by | Takashi Satō |
| Music by | Yugo Kanno |
Production company | AX-ON |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $19.9 million |
Kaiji: Final Game (Japanese: カイジ ファイナルゲーム, Hepburn: Kaiji Fainaru Gēmu) is a 2020 Japanese live-action film based on the manga series Kaiji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. It is the final installment of a trilogy directed by Tōya Satō and premiered in Japan on January 10, 2020. Unlike the first two previous films, Kaiji and Kaiji 2, Kaiji: Final Game is not based on a specific part of the series and it is a completely original story written by Fukumoto.
The story takes place in 2020 Japan following the Tokyo Olympics, as the nation experiences rapid economic collapse. Hyperinflation destabilizes society while government insolvency leads to widespread exploitation of workers. Kaiji Itō, living in poverty, struggles with daily survival when he learns his former overseer Tarō Ōtsuki has become president of the Teiai conglomerate. Ōtsuki recruits Kaiji to participate in "Tower of Babel", a high-stakes gambling event designed to entertain wealthy elites while offering desperate participants a chance at fortune. Subsequent games—including the asset-based "Final Judgment", the lethal "Dream Jump", and the modified "Gold Rock Paper Scissors"—test both Kaiji's gambling skills and his ability to survive Teiai's exploitative system. As the challenges escalate, Kaiji must rely on his wits to navigate the deadly games and confront the conglomerate's corruption.
Cast
- Tatsuya Fujiwara as Kaiji Itō
- Nagisa Sekimizu as Kanako Kirino
- Mackenyu as Minato Hirose
- Sota Fukushi as Kōsuke Takakura
- Kōtarō Yoshida as Yoshihiro Kurosaki
- Suzuki Matsuo as Tarō Ōtsuki
- Yūki Amami as Rinko Endō
- Katsuhisa Namase as Kōtarō Sakazaki
- Ikusaburo Yamazaki as Keiji Nishino
- Masatō Ibu as Shigeru Tōgō
- Toshiki Seto as Taichi Sugawara
- Mariko Shinoda as Last Judgement challenger
- Akio Kaneda as Sōichirō Shibusawa
- Gōki Maeda as Tsuyoshi Takase
Soundtrack
Yugo Kanno composed the music for the film. The original score was released on January 8, 2020.[1]
Release
In May 2019, Kaiji: Final Game, the third and final film of Kaijis live-action trilogy. with a completely original story by Nobuyuki Fukumoto, was announced.[2][3]
Kaiji: Final Game was theatrically released on January 10, 2020 in Japan.[4]
The film premiered in Singapore on March 5, 2020.[5] It was originally planned to premiere in Malaysia on March 19, 2020,[6] but it was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the film opened on July 1, 2020.[7] The film was released in Indonesia on December 9, 2020.[8]