Tatsuya Fujiwara ( Death Note , Battle Royale ), the actor who played the character of Kaiji in the live-action adaptation Nobuyuki Fukumoto 's Kaiji gambling action manga will guest star in the last episode of the Kaiji 2 television anime series. Fujiwara will voice one of the series' black-suited men in the series' 26th episode, which is slated to air on September 28 in Japan.

The Kaiji 2 television anime series began airing in Japan in April, three years after the first anime aired. Kaiji 2 is adapting the "Chika Chinchiro" and "Pachinko Numa " stories from the Tobaku Hakairoku Kaiji manga series, which ran from 2000 to 2004.

Fujiwara will again play Kaiji, a gambler 3.49 million yen (about US$36,000) in debt, in the film's sequel, which will open in Japan on November 5. Tōya Satō ( live-action Gokusen , Grave of the Fireflies , and Sexy Voice and Robo ) directed both films.

In the first film, actress Yūki Amami ( Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea , Socrates in Love ) plays Rinko Endō, a loan shark (originally a male character in the manga) who convinces Kaiji to board a gambling ship to clear his debt — with his life literally at stake.

Source: Cinema Today