The King (1973)
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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Cast
- Shintarō Katsu — Sankichi Sakata
- Tatsuya Nakadai — Kinjiro Sekine
- Tamao Nakamura — Koharu Sakata
- Mikiko Otonashi — Tamae Sakata
- Makoto Fujita — Shinkichi
- Kan Taniguchi — Takahama
- Tomo'o Nagai — Dr. Kikuoka
- Kenzō Tabu — Kojima
- Masao Imanishi — Tamiya
- Takamaru Sasaki — Kobayashi Tōhakusai
- Takao Zushi — Koizumi
- Fukami Harue — Okane
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