Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

Feb 14, 1960

1h 26m

★ 0.0

Overview

When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narcotics smuggling ring.

Genres

Action

Crime

Production Companies

Nikkatsu Corporation

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger Trailers

Cast

Ryuji Kenzaki

Keiichirō Akagi

Midori Ishii

Ruriko Asaoka

Gin of the Colt

Joe Shishido

Yang Sanyuan

Kō Nishimura

Dr Goro Shizu

Ichirō Sugai

Goro Ishii

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Fusae Maki

Minako Katsuki

Keikichi Mishima

Tadao Sawamoto

Double-Edged Gen

Kaku Takashina

Juzaburo Hotta

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Zhang

Arihiro Fujimura

Baba

Shirō Amakusa

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