Kaiji: Final Game
Kaiji: Final Game
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| Directed by | Tōya Satō |
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| Based on | Kaiji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto |
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| Music by | Yugo Kanno |
| Cinematography | Takashi Ohara |
| Edited by | Takashi Satō |
Production company | AX-ON |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $17.6 million[1] |
Kaiji: Final Game (Japanese: カイジ ファイナルゲーム, Hepburn: Kaiji Fainaru Gēmu) is a 2020 Japanese live-action film based on the manga series Kaiji, written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. It is the final installment of a trilogy directed by Tōya Satō and premiered in Japan on January 10, 2020. Unlike the first two previous films, Kaiji and Kaiji 2, Kaiji: Final Game is not based on a specific part of the series and it is a completely original story written by Fukumoto.
Cast
- Tatsuya Fujiwara as Kaiji Itō
- Nagisa Sekimizu as Kanako Kirino
- Mackenyu as Minato Hirose
- Sota Fukushi as Kōsuke Takakura
- Kōtarō Yoshida as Yoshihiro Kurosaki
- Suzuki Matsuo as Tarō Ōtsuki
- Yūki Amami as Rinko Endō
- Katsuhisa Namase as Kōtarō Sakazaki
- Ikusaburo Yamazaki as Keiji Nishino
- Masatō Ibu as Shigeru Tōgō
- Toshiki Seto as Taichi Sugawara
- Mariko Shinoda as Last Judgement challenger
- Akio Kaneda as Sōichirō Shibusawa
- Gōki Maeda as Tsuyoshi Takase
Release
In May 2019, Kaiji: Final Game, the third and final film of Kaijis live-action trilogy. with a completely original story by Nobuyuki Fukumoto, was announced.[2][3]
Kaiji: Final Game was theatrically released on January 10, 2020 in Japan.[4]
The film premiered in Singapore on March 5, 2020.[5] It was originally planned to premiere in Malaysia on March 19, 2020,[6] but it was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the film opened on July 1, 2020.[7]
Novelization
A novelization of the film written by Van Madoy was published by Kodansha on November 14, 2019.[8]
Reception
Box office[edit]
As of February 2020, Kaiji: Final Game has grossed ¥1,935,549,950 ($17.62 million).[9] During the opening weekend, Kaiji: Final Game ranked at #2 at the Japanese box office, earning ¥362 million ($3.29 million), and earned ¥616 million ($5.60 million) from January 10–13.[10] The film stayed at #2 in its third weekend and earned an additional ¥198,153,400 ($1.81 million).[11] The film dropped to #4 in its fourth weekend, and earned ¥120,022,950 ($1.10 million).[12] The film dropped from #8 to #10 in its sixth weekend and earned ¥35,480,750 ($323,000).[9]
Critical reception
Tay Yek Keak of Today in his review of Kaiji: Final Game, considered it as "quite enjoyably fascinating and intellectually stimulating", due that in this third installment "the ambition has grown much bigger. National-size bigger, in fact." Keak mentioned that Fujiwara in his role as Kaiji looks exactly as he was in the first film, and that the only thing that shows that 11 years have passed since the first film is that the "main winner-takes-all game here is more sedentary and less energetic." Keak ultimately added that "it's protracted, it's filled with the outlandish clichés which Japanese flicks love to indulge in and it may seem like a juvenile plaything to the uninitiated. But I like the dark financial apocalypse proposed here which is quite grimly thrilling just to ponder on."[13]
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