The Hoodlum Priest
1967/11/15 • Released • Japanese
Overview
The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.
Director : Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Casts
Shintarō Katsu
Ryuzen
Mayumi Ogawa
Mikio Narita
Naoko Kubo
Jun Tatara
Hōsei Komatsu
Ryūtarō Gomi
Yoshio Kaneuchi
Fumio Watanabe
Shōsaku Sugiyama
Yukio Horikita
Jun Katsumura
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