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15 April 2010 1:25 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

[Our thanks go out to Chris MaGee and Marc Saint-Cyr at the Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow for sharing their coverage of the 2010 Nippon Connection Film Festival.]

Kaiji Ito (Tatsuya Fujiwara) has a problem. Not only is he working at a dead end job as a check out clerk at a convenience store, but he's also a gambling addict. His once 300,000 yen debt has ballooned with interest to a painful 2 million and he simply doesn't know what to do... that is until he is given (to quote "The Godfather") an offer he can't refuse. A beautiful debt collector (Yuki Amami) tells Kaiji about a gambling cruise ship named Espoir, French for "hope", where if he's lucky Kaiji can erase his debts in a single night. A bit suspicious Kaiji boards the ship and finds himself, along with a room full of dozens of other "losers", participating in the 23rd annual Creative Cruise hosted by the the lizard-like Tonegawa (Teruyuki Kagawa). The goal of the cruise is simple - play a game of rock, paper, scissors and come out with your debts cleared. »

1 item from 2010