![The Hoodlum Priest](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/jvMXkowI6qD8L3lomPUWgT3p3OD.jpg)
Plot
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.
Writer | Hajime Takaiwa |
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Director | Kimiyoshi Yasuda |
Actor | Shintarō Katsu, Mayumi Ogawa, Mikio Narita |
Country | Japan |
Production | Daiei Film |