The Hoodlum Priest

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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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n/a 84 min

Type:

Movie

Country:

Japan

Genre:

Action, Crime, History

Release:

1967-11-15

Year:

1967

Director:

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Production:

Daiei Film

Cast:

Shintarō Katsu, Mayumi Ogawa, Mikio Narita, Kayo Mikimoto, Naoko Kubo, Jun Tatara, Hōsei Komatsu, Ryūtarō Gomi, Yoshio Kaneuchi, Fumio Watanabe

The Hoodlum Priest

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