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.
- Released
- 1973-05-19
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Hiromichi Horikawa, Ryōzō Kasahara
Cast
- 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