The King
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Sakata Sankichi, an amateur shogi player living in the slums of Osaka, is so obsessed with the board game that he spends all of his family's money to keep playing in the hope of defeating star player Sekine.
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Shintarō Katsu
Sankichi Sakata
Tatsuya Nakadai
Kinjiro Sekine
Tamao Nakamura
Koharu Sakata
Mikiko Otonashi
Tamae Sakata
Makoto Fujita
Shinkichi
Kan Taniguchi
Takahama
Tomo'o Nagai
Dr. Kikuoka
Kenzō Tabu
Kojima
Masao Imanishi
Tamiya
Takamaru Sasaki
Kobayashi Tōhakusai
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