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Kaiji: Final Game
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Wikipedia article
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 Tya Sat 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 It
*Nagisa Sekimizu as Kanako Kirino
*Mackenyu as Minato Hirose
*Sota Fukushi as Ksuke Takakura
*Ktar Yoshida as Yoshihiro Kurosaki
*Suzuki Matsuo as Tar tsuki
*Yki Amami as Rinko End
*Katsuhisa Namase as Ktar Sakazaki
*Ikusaburo Yamazaki as Keiji Nishino
*Masat Ibu as Shigeru Tg
*Toshiki Seto as Taichi Sugawara
*Mariko Shinoda as Last Judgement challenger
*Akio Kaneda as Sichir Shibusawa
*Gki Maeda as Tsuyoshi Takase
Soundtrack
Yugo Kanno composed the music for the film. The original score was released on January 8, 2020.
Release
In May 2019, 'Kaiji: Final Game', the third and final film of 'Kaiji's live-action trilogy. with a completely original story by Nobuyuki Fukumoto, was announced.
'Kaiji: Final Game' was theatrically released on January 10, 2020 in Japan.
The film premiered in Singapore on March 5, 2020. It was originally planned to premiere in Malaysia on March 19, 2020, but it was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the film opened on July 1, 2020. The film will premiere in Indonesia on December 9, 2020.
Novelization
A novelization of the film written by Van Madoy was published by Kodansha on November 14, 2019.
Reception
Box office
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 1013. The film stayed at #2 in its third weekend and earned an additional 198,153,400 ($1.81 million). The film dropped to #4 in its fourth weekend, and earned 120,022,950 ($1.10 million). The film dropped from #8 to #10 in its sixth weekend and earned 35,480,750 ($323,000).By February 2020, 'Kaiji: Final Game' had grossed 1,935,549,950 ($17.62 million). , it has grossed in Japan, and $14,608 in Vietnam, for a total of $19,914,608 in Asia.
Critical reception
Marcus Goh of 'Yahoo! Style' gave the film 3.5 out of 5. Goh commented that the film's start is strong, showing the dire straits that Kaiji has fallen into and considered it as a "mild political commentary on the labour market in Japan". He praised the first game showed in the film, the Tower of Babel, but stated that the rest of the games are "lacklustre in execution", and although he said that the variety of gambling challenges captures the spirit of the original manga series, the film imports some elements from the original work that "don't work so well with actual human actors". Goh concluded: "'Kaiji: Final Game' echoes the spirit of the manga and anime well by staying true to the elements that made it popular. It does hew a little too closely though, resulting in segments that look awkward when translated to a live-action movie. Nevertheless, fans will be pleased to see another 'Kaiji' film on the big screen".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 clichs 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".
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