Kaiji(2007)

Original title: 逆境無頼カイジ

• TV show
• October 3, 2007
• 23 min per episode
• TV-MA
• 2 seasons
• 52 episodes
• Ended
• Last aired: October 10, 2011
• Animation, Drama, Crime

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.