The Hoodlum Priest (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.
Director:
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Writer:
Hajime Takaiwa
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Shintarō Katsu as Ryuzen |
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Mayumi Ogawa as Otatsu |
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Mikio Narita as Kashiwa Shinjuro |
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Kayo Mikimoto as Otsuru |
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Naoko Kubo as Oen |
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Jun Tatara as Gonroku |
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Hōsei Komatsu as Daihachi |
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Ryūtarō Gomi as Toramatsu |
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Yoshio Kaneuchi as |
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Fumio Watanabe as |
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Shōsaku Sugiyama as |
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Ikkei Tamaki as |
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Yukio Horikita as |
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Akira Shiga as |
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Jun Katsumura as |
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Takeshi Yabuuchi as |
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Sumao Ishihara as |
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Jun Fujikawa as |
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Hiroyoshi Nishioka as |
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Eijirō Yamaoka as |
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Gen Kuroki as |
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Yutaro Ban as |
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Masayoshi Kikuno as |
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Tadashi Iwata as |
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Kenichi Kagami as |
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Masako Tomura as |
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Jun Ōsugi as |
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Taizô Sengoku as |
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Kazuko Taniguchi as |
| Directing | Kimiyoshi Yasuda | Director |
| Writing | Hajime Takaiwa | Screenplay |
| Sound | Chumei Watanabe | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Fujio Morita | Director of Photography |
| Art | Shigeru Katō | Art Direction |
| Sound | Tsuchitarō Hayashi | Sound Recordist |
| Editing | Hiroshi Yamada | Editor |
| Lighting | Hiroya Kato | Lighting Technician |
