Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~23 min/episode
- Length
- 2 seasons · 52 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-MA
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Kaiji Itou is a good-for-nothing loiterer who spends his days drinking beer and stealing hubcaps—that is, until he ends up being tricked by his former co-worker. Unable to suddenly repay his friend's huge debt all by himself, Kaiji is offered a shady deal to participate in an illegal underground gamble on a cruise ship. This turns out to be nothing more than the beginning of his new life of hell—thrown headlong into a life-threatening roller coaster of mind games, cheating, and deceit.
- gambling
- based on manga
- illegal gambling
- seinen
- anime
- gambling addiction
- strategy game
- psychological
- suspense
- suspenseful
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Hideo Ishikawa
- Hiroshi Yanaka
- Yasunori Matsumoto
- Toshiharu Sakurai
- Takayuki Okada
- Kazuki Yao
- Toshitsugu Takashina
- Youichi Nishijima
- Tomohiro Nishimura
- Yuichi Nakamura
- Daisuke Matsubara
- Directed
- Yoshifumi Sueda, Nanako Shimazaki
- Written
- Kazuyuki Fudeyasu, Mitsutaka Hirota
Production
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 105 ratings
- Network & studio
- Nippon TV, Madhouse
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
