Film · Drama
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.
- Director
- Hiromichi Horikawa
- Writers
- Hideji Hōjō, Ryōzō Kasahara
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Release date
- May 19, 1973
- Original title
- 王将
The King was released on May 19, 1973.
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The King cast
Shintarō KatsuSankichi Sakata
Tatsuya NakadaiKinjiro Sekine
Tamao NakamuraKoharu Sakata
Mikiko OtonashiTamae Sakata
Makoto FujitaShinkichi- Kan TaniguchiTakahama
Tomo'o NagaiDr. Kikuoka
Kenzō TabuKojima- Masao ImanishiTamiya
Takamaru SasakiKobayashi Tōhakusai
Takao ZushiKoizumi- Fukami HarueOkane
- Kazuya OguriOgura
Tetsuo MorishitaShinohara
Katsuhiko SasakiYamada- Dai NagasawaMiyamatsu
Ichirō RyūzakiCount Yanagisawa
Hideo MurataMachida
Kazuo KatōDoctor
Haruo SuzukiNewspaper reporter
