The Hoodlum Priest 1967
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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.
- Released: 1967-11-15
- Runtime: 84 minutes
- Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
- Stars: Shintarō Katsu, Mayumi Ogawa, Mikio Narita, Kayo Mikimoto, Naoko Kubo
- Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Shigeru Katô, Hajime Takaiwa, Fujio Morita, Tsuchitarô Hayashi
