The Hoodlum Priest

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.

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  • Release Date: 1967-11-15
  • Runtime: 1h 24min
  • Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda

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Cast

  • Shintarō Katsu

    Ryuzen

  • Mayumi Ogawa

  • Mikio Narita

  • Kayo Mikimoto

  • Naoko Kubo

  • Jun Tatara

  • Hōsei Komatsu

  • Ryūtarō Gomi

  • Yoshio Kaneuchi

  • Fumio Watanabe

  • Shōsaku Sugiyama

  • Ikkei Tamaki

  • Yukio Horikita

  • Akira Shiga

  • Jun Katsumura

  • Takeshi Yabuuchi

  • Sumao Ishihara

  • Jun Fujikawa

  • Hiroyoshi Nishioka

  • Eijirō Yamaoka

  • Gen Kuroki

  • Yutaro Ban

  • Masayoshi Kikuno

  • Tadashi Iwata

  • Kenichi Kagami

  • Masako Tomura

  • Jun Ōsugi

  • Taizô Sengoku

  • Kazuko Taniguchi