Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen
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Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji, Vol. 1
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賭博黙示録カイジ (Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji) |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Nobuyuki Fukumoto |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Young Magazine |
| Original run |
1996 – 1999 (series 1) 2000 – 2003 (series 2) 2004 – 2008 (series 3) 2009 – 2012 (series 4) 2013 – 2017 (series 5) 2017 - Ongoing (series 6) |
| Volumes | 65 |
| Anime television series | |
| Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor | |
| Directed by | Yūzō Satō |
| Written by | Hideo Takayashiki |
| Music by | Hideki Taniuchi |
| Studio | Madhouse |
| Original network | NTV |
| Original run | October 2, 2007 – April 1, 2008 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Live-action film | |
| Kaiji | |
| Directed by | Tōya Satō |
| Produced by | Masatoshi Yamaguchi |
| Written by | Mika Omori, Nobuyuki Fukumoto |
| Studio | Toho |
| Released | October 10, 2009 |
| Runtime | 120 Minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen | |
| Directed by | Yūzō Satō |
| Written by | Hideo Takayashiki |
| Music by | Hideki Taniuchi |
| Studio | Madhouse |
| Original network | NTV |
| Original run | April 6, 2011 – September 27, 2011 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Live-action film | |
| Kaiji 2 | |
| Directed by | Tōya Satō |
| Produced by | Seiji Okuda, Katsu Kamikura, Hiroshi Miyazaki |
| Written by | Junya Yamazaki, Yukiko Oguchi |
| Studio | Toho |
| Released | November 5, 2011 |
| Runtime | 133 Minutes |
Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji (賭博黙示録カイジ lit. Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji), also known as Ultimate Survivor Kaiji, is a Japanese manga series about the art of gambling, written by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. It is published by Kodansha in Young Magazine. The first part of the manga (13 volumes), was adapted as a 26-episode anime television series called Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor (逆境無頼カイジ Ultimate Survivor lit. Suffering Outcast Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor), which began airing October 2007. A live-action 'Kaiji' movie was released October 10, 2009 in Japan with Tatsuya Fujiwara playing the role of Kaiji. Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji is considered Fukumoto's most famous work, and is well known in both Japan and Korea. In 1998, it was the winner of the Kodansha Manga Award in the General category. A second anime television series based on the second arc of the manga, entitled Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen (逆境無頼カイジ 破戒録篇 lit. Suffering Outcast Kaiji: Maverick Arc) premiered April 5, 2011 and ran until September 27, 2011.
After graduating from high school in 1996 in Japan, Itō Kaiji moves to Tokyo to get a job, but he fails to find steady employment because the country is mired in its first recession since World War II. Depressed, he festers in his apartment, biding his time with cheap pranks, gambling, liquor and cigarettes. Kaiji is always thinking about money and his perpetual poverty frequently brings him to tears.
Kaiji's unrelenting misery continues for two years until he is paid an unexpected visit from a man named Endō, who wants to collect an outstanding debt that Kaiji has carelessly co-signed for his former co-worker. Endō gives Kaiji two options - either spend ten years to repay this outstanding debt, or board the gambling ship Espoir ("hope" in French) for one night to clear the debt. Using a con, Endō pressures Kaiji into accepting the deal, believing he will never come back from the voyage.
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