The Hoodlum Priest

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.

• Release date
• November 15, 1967
• Runtime
• 84 min
• Genres
• Action, Crime, History
• Director
• Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast

Shintarō Katsu Ryuzen Mayumi Ogawa Otatsu Mikio Narita Kashiwa Shinjuro

K

Kayo Mikimoto Otsuru Naoko Kubo Oen Jun Tatara Gonroku Hōsei Komatsu Daihachi Ryūtarō Gomi Toramatsu