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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Shintarō KatsuRyuzen
Mayumi OgawaOtatsu
Mikio NaritaKashiwa Shinjuro
Naoko KuboOen
Jun TataraGonroku
Hōsei KomatsuDaihachi
Ryūtarō GomiToramatsu
Yoshio KaneuchiCast
Fumio WatanabeCast
Shōsaku SugiyamaCast
Ikkei TamakiCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Kimiyoshi Yasuda
- Editor
- Hiroshi Yamada
- Director of Photography
- Fujio Morita
- Original Music Composer
- Chumei Watanabe
- Screenplay
- Hajime Takaiwa