Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Director
The Hoodlum Priest (1967)
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.70%
Hajime Takaiwa
Screenplay
Cast
Shintarō Katsu
Ryuzen
Mayumi Ogawa
Mikio Narita
Kayo Mikimoto
Naoko Kubo
Jun Tatara
Hōsei Komatsu
Ryūtarō Gomi
Yoshio Kaneuchi
Fumio Watanabe
Shōsaku Sugiyama
Ikkei Tamaki
Shintarō Katsu
Ryuzen
Mayumi Ogawa
Mikio Narita
Kayo Mikimoto
Naoko Kubo
Jun Tatara
Hōsei Komatsu
Ryūtarō Gomi
Yoshio Kaneuchi
Fumio Watanabe
Shōsaku Sugiyama
Ikkei Tamaki
Extra
Release Date
November 15, 1967Original Language
JapaneseBudget
$0.00Production Company
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