The Hoodlum Priest (1967)
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.
Year
1967
Country
JP
Language
Japanese
Release date
15 November 1967
TMDB
7.3 (3)
CineVerse
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Ratings
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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
Yoshio Kaneuchi
Fumio Watanabe
Shōsaku Sugiyama
Ikkei Tamaki
Yukio Horikita
A
Akira Shiga
Jun Katsumura
T
Takeshi Yabuuchi
S
Sumao Ishihara
Jun Fujikawa
H
Hiroyoshi Nishioka
E
Eijirō Yamaoka
G
Gen Kuroki
Y
Yutaro Ban
M
Masayoshi Kikuno
T
Tadashi Iwata
K
Kenichi Kagami
M
Masako Tomura
J
Jun Ōsugi
T
Taizô Sengoku
K
Kazuko Taniguchi
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