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A GAMBLER'S ODYSSEY 2020

MAHJONG HOROKI

By Kazuya SHIRAISHI

TOEI COMPANY, LTD. - as SALES All rights, World

Comedy - Completed 2018

Living in a chaos of post-World War II period, Tetsu, a player of Mahjong,exiles in 2020 where AI is dominating. He struggles to survive in 2020 with gambling Mahjong, and finally can find the way out to go back to his original place.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Comedy, Fantasy, Science-fiction
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 117 mn
- Director(s)
- Kazuya SHIRAISHI
- Synopsis
- 　The protagonist, Tetsu exiles in 2020 of the “future”. As a result of underpopulation and most of the jobs that are substituted by Artificial Intelligence, there are full of aging people in the town unemployed. And that future has the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games canceled. Is this a truth or a lie? Testu, who claims that he comes from 1945 in the “Post-World War II” period, is surprised of the world he has never seen before. In this unexpected situation, what would be the “Mahjong” game he has to confront by even risking his own life?