Why is that a squid game? Welcome back to movie recaps today i will show you a thriller drama film from 2009 titled kaiji the ultimate gambler spoilers ahead and take care. It's a stormy night in the city when kazutaka hyodu, wealthy social light and president of the financial consulting firm tai corporation asks his employees. What gives man the ultimate power? They have many answers for him like military power and market dominance, and rinko endo is scolded when she replies money, since that's too basic. The real point is what you do with it.

However, yukio tonegawa is praised by his boss for answering that power as having the financial muscle to build your own kingdom. Like a fallout shelter. He also points out that japan is filled with hopeless young men that will serve as labor for construction later. Kaiji 2 is going through his usual daily routine.

He buys and loses at scratch-offs, spends a very boring day at his work as a cashier in a convenience store and on his way home. He curses all the rich cars around him for being successful because they evade taxes and not because they work hard when he kicks a mercedes. A group of bodyguards chases him for it and from that car also comes out rinko. Who takes him to an office? To talk a couple of years ago, kaiji signed a loan contract to be a friend's guarantor, and since that friend has disappeared, it is now his obligation to pay the debt to make matters worse.

The original sum of 300 000 yen has now become a debt of 2 million because of interests not to speak of the car damage he's caused. Since he can't pay that amount. Rinco offers him a deal. There's a gambling cruise.

He can participate in filled with broke losers like him, and if he wins, his debt will be wiped clean after rinko gives him a speech on how crappy his life is, and this being the only opportunity to start over kaiji accepts later in the evening, while rinko Hands in kaiji's profile at the company mentioning xi's, filter quota, kaiji gets onboard the cruise, which is indeed filled with broke losers. Yukio is the host and the one that will explain the rules of the game they'll be playing tonight. Each player is given three 1 million yen stars with an interest of one percent per minute. If someone wins, not only will the company wipe the deck clean, they'll buy back the stars too.

Players are also given 12 rock paper scissors cards that they'll use to play. The game as usual, each time they win a round, they get a star from their opponent to win guys. This is from 2009 2009. So whatever you say about a game, it's not true you're, just dumb, you must use all their 12 cards and have at least three stars after 30 minutes.

No questions are allowed and after yukio calls them babies, he leaves so they can start playing all the players. Rush to find an opponent and kaiji is approached by juji funai, a man that proposes a truce if they play the same cards and cause a draw, they won't lose any stars and will get rid of their cards quickly, giving them an easy way out. Kaiji accepts and the game begins normally helping. Both players lose their cards with no issues, but at the last minute, funai backstabs kaiji and scams him out of two stars by playing to win instead of to draw leaving him with just one star and one card furious.

Kaiji drops his card and punches funai, causing him to bleed on the floor in the card as well. Security quickly separates them, but soon a new commotion begins. Funai tells everyone that kaiji's last card is scissors, so everyone would go after him for an easy star and kaiji retaliates by announcing funai only has rock left. Everyone starts arguing over this, possibly being a trick or not, and they're suddenly interrupted by a guard that brings koji ishita back into the game after he was caught, trying to flush his cards down the toilet, which is against the rules with 10 minutes left on the Clock funai takes advantage of the moment to announce his latest idea, a reshuffle that way.

Nobody will know each other's cards anymore. Everyone accepts including kaiji, because he has a plan. Funai takes all the cards. Shuffles them then gives each player back the same amount they had before.

Kaiji receives the card with a blood stain again and decides to team up with ishida to play against funai on a one-card match for three stars. Funai is sure he will win because he knows kaiji's last card, but kaiji expected this and defeats him easily. This was his plan. All along knowing funai would have noticed.

The blood mark kaiji took one of ishida's cards and added blood on it to make it pass. As his own stained cart tricking funai into playing the incorrect one after dividing funai's stars between them, so they both have three kaiji initiative play their last cards by tying on purpose and win, or at least that's what they think, because, while they're in the middle of Celebrating, as the time runs out, ishida finds a card in his pocket. He forgot about since kaiji sticks to his promise of a team up and accepts the card as his as well. Both of them lose.

They are taken to work deep underground in forced labor. For the construction of hyalu's kingdom, the conditions are awful, the hours are long, they don't have breaks, their meals are incredibly basic and they all bunk, together in a very small space to sleep on the floor, they're also branded on their shoulders with a microchip. So they can't escape and their pay is pathetic. It's not even in yen they're paid in their own currency called perica, which is only valid in the underground.

It's worth a tenth of a yen making kaiji's salary 350 yen per day, which is around three dollars as little as it may be. Kaiji thinks of saving up the money to be able to pay his debt, but soon the temptations arrive, a card offering beer and tasty greasy food. He manages to turn down the offer at first, but after the foreman gives him a free beer for being his first. One and whispers sweet words about how delicious everything is kaiji desperately gives in and ends up spending, almost all his money on snacks and more beer.

Most workers do the same, and this is the way the company keeps them they're working for free for years. The next day, an earthquake shakes their working area. Initiative, gets hurt, kaiji hurries, to take him to the infirmary, where he discovers. Most patients aren't being treated because they must pay with perica.

If they want medicine there, they meet makoto sahara, who tells them he overheard the form and making fun of them and explaining how the system is designed for them to fail. They begin losing hope, but the doctor tells them not to worry because they'll be collecting people for the brave men road soon. The next time the snacks cart comes around kaiji calls out the foreman for his trickery and asks his co-workers to wake up from a dream that is never going to happen. Their argument is interrupted when some guards come to pick sahara up because he's been chosen for the brave men road, a very dangerous game where winning gives you freedom, but losing takes your life ready to take the risk kaiji volunteers to go too and ishida also joins Them all the chosen players are blindfolded and get their hands tied up as they're taking to their destination.

Although kaiji can tell they're being put in a vehicle and then an elevator when they're finally allowed to see again, they discover they're on the roof of a skyscraper and yukio, is here again to explain the rules. Each player is given a voucher for 10 million yen and to cash it. They must go to the hotel across the street by crossing the bravemen road, which consists of two rather narrow beams. They can't even crawl on them, because they're electrocuted walking, while keeping balance, is the only option such rule is in place to make the game harder, but also more interesting, since it's being transmitted to a bunch of socialites as reality entertainment.

The players are too scared. At. First, but when kaiji accepts to participate, he inspires the others to join as well. Yukio goes back to the hotel where he and rinco will be hosting for the socialites that are watching the game.

Meanwhile, kaiji draws lines on everyone's shoes, so they can align them with the middle of the beam and keep better balance. The group slowly begins making their way across the beams and kaiji almost slips, but he manages to recover his balance before the worst happens, but soon everyone gets nervous when a bolt of lightning strikes nearby promising a storm. One of the players is too anxious to continue, but sahara refuses to help him, so he ends up slipping, getting electrocuted and falling off the beam. This loss immediately lowers everybody's morale and one by one.

The players fall off to their deaths until only kaiji sahara and ishida are left. Each fall is celebrated by the watchers as if it was a point gained in a sports match which discussed rinko. The storm soon reaches the players, and, while sahara and kaiji refused to give up, ishita does admit his time has come. He gives kaiji as voucher, asking him to cash it and send the money to his daughter and as soon as kaiji turns around ishita lets.

His body fall in complete silence to spare his friend from the panic. Why? Slowly but surely sahara and kaiji finish crossing the beams and reach the hotel door, but kaiji worries when he sees hayaudu watching them from a window. His instincts are right, there's a final trick waiting for them when sahara opens the door he's hit by a wind blast caused by the difference in air pressure and falls kaiji slips as well, but he manages to hold onto the ledge and climb back proceeding to enter The building through the door to become the first person to ever win at brave men, road hyudu congratulates kaiji for it and grants yukio a citizenship in his kingdom for having provided such a great show. Kaiji demands to be paid, but the news he hears isn't great.

Ishida's voucher is invalid, because he's dead and from the 10 million kaiju won they'll take the debt money he owes them. So all he has left in the end are 750 000 yen around seven thousand dollars. At least he has his freedom, but he's still furious that he won't get to send the money to issued his daughter, so he tries to punch yukio only to be stopped by the guards. Hi audu is impressed by his attitude, so he gives kaiji one last chance to play one more game.

The game is called e cards and his opponent will be yukio himself. What each player receives five cards, four citizens and either an emperor or a slave. The gameplay is simple: the slave team picks a card first and puts it face down on the table. Then the emperor team responds with a card of his own when the cards are revealed, they decide who wins by following a simple rule.

Citizen vs citizen is a draw, citizen beats slave emperor beats, citizen and slave beats emperor, putting down cards randomly isn't allowed, kaiji must look at them and choose accordingly. There will be three rounds and the bet is 10 to 1, with 10 being the slave side. This is why kaiju chooses to play as the slave. Even if he's at a disadvantage, he'll have to play.

First, his opponent will be able to read his expression and the odds of the slave winning are one-fifth. This match is so important that they're even showing it on the underground tv kaiji begins by playing two citizens getting two draws, but when he plays the slave, yukio immediately can tell and defeats him hayao. Who is disappointed that it's ended so quickly. So he lends kaiji some money, so he can play again this time, kaiji, watches, yukio and realizes that he doesn't look at him in return or even at his own cards, which is very strange.

He decides to send the slave first as a surprise tactic, but once again, yukio can tell he's, played the card and easily defeats him as the guards come to take kaiji away for losing. He notices that yukio is wearing a different watch on his way out. Kaiji begins reviewing in his head all the details about the game, trying to find out how it has been fixed when rinko comes by to make fun of him and call him a branded loser. Kaiji realizes the microchip on his arm is the key to all this yukio has put on a watch that allows him to read kaiji's vitals and that's why he could know when he plays a difficult card.

Kaiji begins, crying and making a scene thinking. He'll spend his entire life underground, but, as he remembers, all the tricks that have been used in all tea so far, he comes up with a plan. First, he asks for permission to go to the bathroom before leaving once in there. He calls rinko over knowing she's waiting at the door.

Then he tells her about his plan and convinces her to lend him 50 million yen to play once more claiming he knows deep inside she's, a good person rinko ends up agreeing and takes him back to the game room where hayao, who is pleased by this surprise And orders yukio to play against kaiji again before they start, though kaiji hits his head against the mirror a couple of times, so his vitals show crazy numbers on yukio's watch all the time at the table. He grabs three cards and hides them on his lap, but then changes one while yukio isn't looking and the two remaining cards on the table end up with bloodstains on them. When kaiji shakes his head, the game begins and for the first time in his life, yukio is nervous and unsure, because he can't rely on the watch anymore. The first cards they play are citizens, so it's a draw, but the second round is when things get interesting.

Kaiji plays a card with a blood stain on it. Yukio remembers that the two remaining cards on the table when the bleeding happened were the slave and a citizen, so he plays a citizen for that 50. 50. Chance kaiji's card is also a citizen, so this is another draw, but yukio now gets confident.

This means the next bloodstained card will be the slave. After one more citizen draw they're down to two cards and kaiji plays the other bloodstain one believing it to be. The slave yukio is about to play a citizen, but stops himself when he realizes kaiji must have seen the blood, because it's the same trick, he had used back on the cruise. He also realizes he saw kaiji swap one of the cards after he took the first three, which means the one on the table.

Now is also a citizen, and this has been a trick all along confident in his conclusion. Yukio plays the emperor only to get the biggest shock of the day. Kaiji has played the slave, so he wins the game as the workers underground celebrate the victory. Kaiji explains he never swapped the cards he only pretended he did.

Hayaodu gets furious with yukio for having lost him a lot of money. So after hitting him with his cane, he revokes his citizenship in the kingdom and sends him to work underground for the rest of his life. The next day, kaiji and rinko divide the money while celebrating over lunch, but suddenly kaiji passes out because rinko has put something in his drink when he wakes up later. All the bags with the money and rinco herself are gone, but she's left behind a letter explaining she's taken the money, because kaiji didn't think of the interest per minute on the loan and the payment for the car damage he still owed her.

In the end, he's only left with 450 000 yen around four thousand dollars, kaiji freaks out, while rinko gets away in her car and throws her company pass out of the window enjoying her new foundation she's a good person. After all, some time later, ishida's daughter receives an anonymous envelope with 450 000 yen in her father's game. Voucher inches per minute make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications. So you can watch more videos, man, this movie is dog.

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