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.
| Title | The Hoodlum Priest |
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| Year | 1967 |
| Genre | Action, Crime, Drama |
| Country | Japan |
| Studio | Daiei Film |
| Cast | Shintarō Katsu, Mayumi Ogawa, Mikio Narita, Kayo Mikimoto, Naoko Kubo, Jun Tatara |
| Crew | Kimiyoshi Yasuda (Director), Hajime Takaiwa (Screenplay), Chumei Watanabe (Original Music Composer), Fujio Morita (Director of Photography), Shigeru Katô (Art Direction), Tsuchitarô Hayashi (Sound Recordist) |
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| Release | Nov 15, 1967 |
| Runtime | 84 minutes |
| Quality | HD |
| IMDb | 7.00 / 10 by 1 users |
| Popularity | 2 |
| Budget | 0 |
| Revenue | 0 |
| Language | 日本語 |
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