Woman Gambler / Showa onna bakuto (1972)

One of the most popular of all the many film series of the sixties was Kyoko Enami’s Woman Gambler, reaching 16 features at Daei. After Raizo Ichikawa’s death and Shintaro Katsu’s move to independent production, the Woman Gambler was practically Daiei’s only dependable money maker, but it was not enough to keep the studio out …