Hoodlum Priest

Hoodlum Priest

84 mins | Action | Nov. 15, 1967

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.

Hoodlum Priest

84 mins | Action | Nov. 15, 1967

Hoodlum Priest

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.

Producers	Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Original title	やくざ坊主
Directors	Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Writers	Hajime Takaiwa

Cast

Shintarō Katsu

as Ryuzen

Mayumi Ogawa

as

Mikio Narita

as

Kayo Mikimoto

as

Naoko Kubo

as

Jun Tatara

as

Hōsei Komatsu

as

Ryûtarô Gomi

as

Yoshio Kaneuchi

as

Fumio Watanabe

as

Shôsaku Sugiyama

as

Ikkei Tamaki

as

Yukio Horikita

as

Akira Shiga

as

Jun Katsumura

as

Takeshi Yabuuchi

as

Sumao Ishihara

as

Jun Fujikawa

as

Hiroyoshi Nishioka

as

Eijirō Yamaoka

as

Gen Kuroki

as

Masayoshi Kikuno

as

Tadashi Iwata

as

Kenichi Kagami

as

Masako Tomura

as

Jun Ôsugi

as

Taizô Sengoku

as

Kazuko Taniguchi

as