The Hoodlum Priest

(1967)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 3 votes

Genres: Action, Crime, History

Year: 1967

Runtime: 84 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 安田公義

Cast: 勝新太郎, 小川眞由美, 成田三樹夫, Kayo Mikimoto, 久保菜穂子, 多々良純, 小松方正, 五味龍太郎, 金内吉男, 渡辺文雄

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.