2 Season
52 Episode
Kaiji - Season 1 Episode 1 Departure
Kaiji Itou is a bum who's been living in Tokyo for 3 years and gambling his life away, then one day a shady man named Endou Yuuji comes to his home asking for Takeshi Furuhata. It turns out that his friend Furuhata disappeared and left Kaiji with the debt of ¥3,850,000, which will take him 11 years to pay off. But Endou has a proposition for him; he wants Kaiji to participate in the gambling event on the Harumi Wharf.
- Year: 2011
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Animation, Drama
- Studio: Nippon TV
- Keyword: gambling, based on manga, illegal gambling, anime, gambling addiction, strategy game, psychological, suspense
- Director:
- Cast: Masato Hagiwara, Fumihiko Tachiki