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The Hoodlum Priest (1967)

The Hoodlum Priest (1967)

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Release Date: 1967, November 15
Directors: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Countries: Japan
Production: Daiei Film, Daiei Film
Cast: Jun Tatara, Hōsei Komatsu, Mikio Narita, Mayumi Ogawa, Shintarō Katsu, Naoko Kubo, Ryūtarō Gomi, Kayo Mikimoto

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.

Keywords:

yakuza hoodlum