You’re reading Deadly Games, a series of posts looking back at the Yugi film trilogy starring Matsuda Yusaku. This post will look at Shokei Yugi (The Execution Game), the third and final film in the trilogy. A list of previous posts can be found below. In 1978, the first two installments of the Yugi series […]
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