The Hoodlum Priest
The Hoodlum Priest

The Hoodlum Priest

やくざ坊主

Release date : 1967-11-15

Production country :

Japan

Production company :

Daiei Film

Status : Released

Durasi : 84 Min.

Popularity : 0.644

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Total Vote : 1

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.