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The Hoodlum Priest
The Hoodlum Priest
やくざ坊主
1967 ·84 min ·Japan
7.0
IMDb 6.3
Action, Crime, History
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
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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.

Shintarô Katsu
Actor
Mayumi Ogawa
Actor
Hôsei Komatsu
Actor
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