Film

The Hoodlum Priest

1967 · 1h 24m · Action · Crime · History

IMDb

6.3

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.

Shintarō Katsu

Ryuzen

Mayumi Ogawa

Otatsu

Mikio Narita

Kashiwa Shinjuro

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

Akira Shiga

Jun Katsumura

Takeshi Yabuuchi

• Kimiyoshi YasudaDirector
• Hajime TakaiwaScreenplay
• Fujio MoritaDirector of Photography
• Chumei WatanabeOriginal Music Composer
• Hiroshi YamadaEditor

Release date

November 15, 1967

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Action, Crime, History

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