Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler vs The Game

The Game has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.7/10 for Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler). The Game is the shorter watch at 2h 9m compared with 2h 13m. The Game is the older of the two (1997 against 2011). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler posterKaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler2011 VS The Game posterThe Game1997
Kaiji 2: The Ultimate GamblerThe Game
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 7.6/10
Year20111997
Length2h 13m2h 9m
GenresDrama, Mystery, ThrillerDrama, Mystery, Thriller
CountryJapan–
DirectorTōya SatōDavid Fincher
Main castTatsuya Fujiwara, Yūsuke Iseya, Katsuhisa Namase, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yuriko YoshitakaJames Rebhorn, Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, Charles Martinet

Synopsis

Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler

3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard labour. One day, Kaiji wins a bet to get out of the underground with 1 million yen, and promises the other workers that he will save them. But to do so, he only has 14 days and needs 200 million yen! Kaiji meets his former rival Tonegawa and learns that there is a chance to turn the tables in the…

The Game

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

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