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Released , 'The Hoodlum Priest' stars Shintarō Katsu, Mayumi Ogawa, Mikio Narita, Kayo Mikimoto The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 24 min, and received a user score of 70 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 1 knowledgeable users.
Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the 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." .