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.

Un voyou pratiquant les arts martiaux, fornicant, buvant de l'alcool, jouant un prêtre qui rivalise avec le voyou yakuza local en ouvrant sa propre maison de jeu et en bat beaucoup pour démarrer. Le prêtre combat ses propres conventions, les yakuzas, les femmes amoureuses et assure la justice de rue.