Plot:

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.

Tags:

Actors - Crew

Shintarō Katsu
Ryuzen

Mayumi Ogawa

Mikio Narita

Kayo Mikimoto

Naoko Kubo

Jun Tatara

Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Director

Hajime Takaiwa
Screenplay

Chumei Watanabe
Original Music Composer

Fujio Morita
Director of Photography

Shigeru Katô
Art Direction

Tsuchitarô Hayashi
Sound Recordist

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