The Hoodlum Priest(1967)

Name: The Hoodlum Priest
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Genre: Action, Crime, History
Released: 1967-01-01
Duration: 84 min
Cast: Shintarō Katsu, Mayumi Ogawa, Mikio Narita, Kayo Mikimoto, Naoko Kubo

Shintarō Katsu Mayumi Ogawa Mikio Narita Kayo Mikimoto Naoko Kubo

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.