22 Jun 2012
Lay the Favorite
A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
Gamblers
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta’s back, is now a dissolute, bitter drunk living with his son in law and sickly grandson. His daughter, the boy’s mom, is indentured at the brothel run by boss Nakamura and daughter Matsuo. Nakamura’s two faced second in command Amatsu will not let the mother see her son…
Top Billed Cast
鶴田浩二 
待田京介 
若山富三郎 Ozeki Isamu
桜町弘子 
河津清三郎 
小池朝雄 
山城新伍 
名和宏 
橘ますみ 
野口貴史 
西田良 
阿波地大輔 
藤山寛美 Hisako Tsurumi
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