The King

The King (1973)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1973-05-19
  • Runtime: 1h 41min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: TOHO
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Hiromichi Horikawa

Summary

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.

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  • Shintarō Katsu

    as Sankichi Sakata

  • Tatsuya Nakadai

    as Kinjiro Sekine

  • Tamao Nakamura

    as Koharu Sakata

  • Mikiko Otonashi

    as Tamae Sakata

  • Makoto Fujita

    as Shinkichi

  • Kan Taniguchi

    as Takahama

  • Tomo'o Nagai

    as Dr. Kikuoka

  • Kenzō Tabu

    as Kojima

  • Masao Imanishi

    as Tamiya

  • Takamaru Sasaki

    as Kobayashi Tōhakusai

  • Takao Zushi

    as Koizumi

  • Fukami Harue

    as Okane

  • Kazuya Oguri

    as Ogura

  • Tetsuo Morishita

    as Shinohara

  • Katsuhiko Sasaki

    as Yamada

  • Dai Nagasawa

    as Miyamatsu

  • Ichirō Ryūzaki

    as Count Yanagisawa

  • Hideo Murata

    as Machida

  • Kazuo Katō

    as Doctor

  • Haruo Suzuki

    as Newspaper reporter

  • Yūjirō Ishihama

    as Man with gold-rimmed glasses

  • Yasuzō Ogawa

    as Postman

  • Chieko Harada

    as Otoki
Directing Hiromichi Horikawa Director
Production Sanezumi Fujimoto Producer
Production Michio Morioka Producer
Writing Hideji Hōjō Novel
Writing Ryōzō Kasahara Screenplay
Camera Yuzuru Aizawa Director of Photography
Art Satoru Chūko Art Direction
Lighting 羽田昭三 Lighting Technician
Editing Yoshitami Kuroiwa Editor
Directing Yoshisuke Kawasaki Assistant Director
Sound Masaru Satō Original Music Composer
Sound Choshichiro Sakai Sound Recordist

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