The Hoodlum Priest
7.0/10
Release: 15/11/1967
Duration: 1h 24m

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.
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director:Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Writers
| Screenplay:Hajime Takaiwa
Production
Daiei Film