Movielogr
The Hoodlum Priest (1967)
Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Overview
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.
Length 84 minutes
Actors
Shintarō Katsu | Mayumi Ogawa | Mikio Narita | Kayo Mikimoto | Naoko Kubo | Jun Tatara | Hôsei Komatsu | Ryûtarô Gomi | Yoshio Kaneuchi | Fumio Watanabe | Shôsaku Sugiyama | Ikkei Tamaki | Yukio Horikita | Akira Shiga | Jun Katsumura | Takeshi Yabuuchi | Sumao Ishihara | Jun Fujikawa | Hiroyoshi Nishioka | Eijirô Yamaoka | Gen Kuroki | Yûtarô Ban | Masayoshi Kikuno | Tadashi Iwata | Kenichi Kagami | Masako Tomura | Jun Ôsugi | Taizô Sengoku | Kazuko Taniguchi