The Drifting Gambler

1970•1h 40m

Crime

8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.

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Cast

Koji Tsuruta

Eijiro Funaki

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Yoshii Yusaku

Michitarō Mizushima

Ichizo Yamagata

Kyōsuke Machida

Shinkichi Shimizu

Bin Amatsu

Kohei Kumagai

Sumiko Fuji

Kohide

Sanae Kitabayashi

Tomi

Asao Uchida

Masagoro Ochiai

Ryuji Kita

Komanosuke Kikuchi

Nobuo Yana

Shota Nomura

Kazutarō Kuni

Sachio Miyagi

Kenji Ushio

Kinji Nakamura

Shintaro Nasu

Hideo Murota

Midori Yamada

Fujio Suga

Akira Shioji

Tetsuya Yamaoka

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