The Hoodlum Priest
Nov 15 1967
•1h 24m
•Action, Crime, History
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.
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Shintarō Katsu
Ryuzen
Mayumi Ogawa
Mikio Narita
Kayo Mikimoto
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