The Hoodlum Priest

Name: The Hoodlum Priest
Genre: Action, Crime, History
Released: 1967-11-15
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Rating: 7.333
Cast: Shintarō Katsu, Mayumi Ogawa, Mikio Narita, Kayo Mikimoto, Naoko Kubo

Nov 15, 1967Action · Crime · History1h 24mJapan

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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TMDB rating7.3 / 10

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