Movie: The King

Top 10 Billed Cast

Rentaro Mikuni
三国連太郎

Chikage Awashima
淡島千景

Yoshiko Mita
三田佳子

Hideo Murata
村田英雄

Sonny Chiba
千葉真一

Mikijiro Hira
平幹二朗

Tokue Hanazawa
花沢徳衛

Ryōsuke Kagawa
香川良介

Taiji Tonoyama
殿山泰司

Tsûsai Sugawara
菅原通済

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    The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.

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    1962-11-23

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    The life story of the shogi master&maniac Sankichi Sakata in the Meiji era.

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