The Hoodlum Priest
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Fumio Watanabe · Hōsei Komatsu · Jun Tatara · Kayo Mikimoto · Mayumi Ogawa · Mikio Narita · Naoko Kubo · Ryūtarō Gomi · Shintarō Katsu · Yoshio Kaneuchi · Kimiyoshi Yasuda · Hajime Takaiwa