Region 0 (ALL REGION PLAY / NO REGION CODE) - NTSC Format *CUSTOM BDR-25* REMASTERED VERSION Year: 1967 Running Time: 84 mins. approx. CAST: Shintaro Katsu Mayumi Ogawa Mikio Narita Kayo Mikimoto Naoko Kubo Jun Tatara Hosei Komatsu Ryutaro Gomi Yoshio Kaneuchi Fumio Watanabe Shosaku Sugiyama Ikkei Tamaki Yukio Horikita Akira Shiga Jun Katsumura Takeshi Yabuuchi Sumao Ishihara Jun Fujikawa Hiroyoshi Nishioka Eijiro Yamaoka Gen Kuroki Yutaro Ban Masayoshi Kikuno Tadashi Iwata Kenichi Kagami Masako Tomura Jun Osugi Taizo Sengoku Kazuko Taniguchi Directed by: Kimiyoshi Yasuda 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. VIDEO: Color / AVC h.264 / 1080p / 16:9 / 2.40:1 / Widescreen AUDIO: Japanese: AC-3 Mono SUBTITLES: Removable English Subtitles BONUS: Trailer, Interactive Menu
