Big Time Gambling Boss
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1968 |
| Country | Japan |
| Director | Kosaku Yamashita |
| Cast | Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroshi Nawa |
| Genre | Yakuza drama film |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Big Time Gambling Boss | – |
| Español | – | – |
| Français | – | – |
| Deutsch | – | – |
| Português | – | – |
| Italiano | – | – |
| Русский | – | – |
| 中文（简体） | – | – |
| 中文（繁體） | – | – |
| 한국어 | – | – |
| ไทย | – | – |
| Tiếng Việt | – | – |
| Bahasa Indonesia | – | – |
| 日本語 | 博奕打ち 総長賭博 | Bakuchiuchi: Sōchō Tobaku |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which personal loyalty and organizational succession collide within a ritualized underworld hierarchy
■ Synopsis
A gambling-house succession dispute turns duty, honor, loyalty, and sacrifice into a fatal test of the underworld code.
■ RECIPE Tags
#LoyaltyAndDuty #SuccessionConflict #UnderworldCode #HonorAndSacrifice #OrganizationalRitual
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Loyalty inside a corrupt hierarchy
Reason: Personal allegiance is forced to operate within an organization ruled by power calculation.
Related Film: The Yakuza - Middle: Succession as ritualized violence
Reason: Leadership transfer becomes a system where honor language conceals coercion and sacrifice.
Related Film: The Godfather - Core: Duty that destroys the loyal man
Reason: The person most faithful to the code is consumed by the code’s political contradiction.
Related Film: Harakiri
■ Secondary Axes
- Code versus power: Ethical language is absorbed by organizational survival.
Related Film: Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Sacrificial executor: The loyal subordinate becomes the instrument and victim of order.
Related Film: The Bad Sleep Well
■ Person
- Director: Kosaku Yamashita
- Cast: Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroshi Nawa
■ Structural Tags
#SuccessionHierarchy #RitualizedObligation #LoyaltyContradiction
■ Attribute Tags
#Japan #1968Film #YakuzaFilm
