Shotaro Ikenami
Director
Hissatsu Series (1972)
Hissatsu Shigotonin
The Hissatsu series is a long-running prime-time popular television Jidaigeki series about assassins in Japan. Hissatsu Shikakenin is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel Shiokinin Fujieda Baian, but its sequels are only inspired by it.
Released Sept. 1, 1972
Episode 42 min
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S15E1 - Sell Your Life, Get Gibbeted
Mondo Nakamura’s wife and coworkers think he’s incompetent. But at night he sheds his civil servant disguise, and teams up with Tetsu and Jo to fight crime and corruption.
May 18, 1979, midnight
S15E2 - The Bloody Wish Left in Prison
Is a mysterious woman killing wealthy Soybean wholesalers and leaving playing cards on their bodies? In a strange twist, they become bodyguards for the next likely target.
May 25, 1979, midnight
S15E3 - No Pity for the Outcasts
When Kanoke and Nebutsu are arrested after assassinating a rapist without Mondo’s help, Mondo must rescue them from a corrupt police official who murders girls for profit.
June 1, 1979, midnight
S15E4 - Human Trash, Human Payment
When a mentally unstable gangster launches a series of bloody attacks against other Yakuza, Crime Boss Koroku hires Mondo to be his personal bodyguard.
June 8, 1979, midnight
S15E5 - Hang Buddha!
The ruthless Daihachi of the Back Daruma Gang wants to drive a sweet potato shop’s owner off his land, so the owner turns to his old prison buddy, Nenbutsu, for help.
June 15, 1979, midnight
S15E6 - The Grudge Carved into the Walls
When a group of Samurai begin killing peasants in order to test their swords, the Punishers are hired by a local prostitute whose father and sister were murdered.
June 22, 1979, midnight
S15E7 - Deep Abysses in Closed Eyes
When a young woman attempts to murder a blind money lender, Mondo is forced to turn her over for execution… but is the blind man truly who and what he claims to be?
June 29, 1979, midnight
S15E8 - The Power of Bare Grass
A dog-obsessed noblewoman has a series of young women beaten and disfigured by her giant body guard, but the plans to punish her are stymied by the fact that she has a gun.
July 6, 1979, midnight
S15E9 - The Ones Who Use People, the Ones Who Are Used
Nenbutsu starts to have feelings for a new courtesan, but his hopes for romance go awry when it turns out that she is under the spell of a murderous pimp.
July 13, 1979, midnight
S15E10 - Cloth Thief, Jet Black
When the father and fiancé of an old friend are murdered by one of the Shogun’s Concubine’s guards, Okin makes plans to infiltrate the Shogun’s harem.
July 20, 1979, midnight
S15E11 - A Plot Behind Exile
Demon Iwa, an infamous lawman who frames innocent suspects to protect the wealthy, sets out to catch the Punishers, and his first target is Okin.
July 27, 1979, midnight
S15E12 - A Woman's Hellish Journey
Han falls in love with a beautiful mute girl, whose entire family was enslaved and murdered by an ambitious Lord. Needless to say, it's Punishing Time.
Aug. 3, 1979, midnight
S15E13 - The Worse They Are, the Better They Seem
A potentially explosive crisis ensues when a rural samurai takes the daughter of a powerful retainer hostage in a shop filled with highly flammable oil and a lit candle.
Aug. 10, 1979, midnight
S15E14 - A Paper to Stake One's Life On
When Han’s mentor, a crusading tabloid sheet writer, takes on a developer whose negotiation techniques include blackmail and murder, the Punishers are drawn into the fray.
Aug. 17, 1979, midnight
S15E15 - The Inn at Which Night Bares its Fangs
On a dark and stormy night, a landslide traps Jo, Tetsu, and an assortment of unsavory travelers in a haunted Inn, while an unknown murderer picks them off one by one.
Aug. 24, 1979, midnight
S15E16 - The False Tears of a Scoundrel
A compulsive gambler is accused of a murder committed by a masked killer, the Punishers help to plot a temporary jailbreak, and fires break out across the city.
Aug. 31, 1979, midnight
S15E17 - To Throw Love Away and Wish for Death
The Punishers become involved when two vengeful sisters seek to expose a group of oil merchants who had their father wrongfully executed for arson.
Sept. 7, 1979, midnight
S15E18 - Everything's Prepared, Now for the Punishment
When a young bride to be is driven mad by a mysterious masked attacker, the Punishers must work around her amnesia to find clues that led toward the guilty party.
Sept. 14, 1979, midnight
S15E19 - Hate the Sin, Hate the Sinner
As a famine strikes Edo, Mondo must figure out how to rescue Jo and Tetsu, who were caught in a roundup of vagrants and sentenced to the life in the mines.
Sept. 21, 1979, midnight
S15E20 - Darkness Smites the Woman Pursued
While the police scour the town for a knife-wielding murderer, Okin finds herself trapped in her home with a very unwelcome guest.
Sept. 28, 1979, midnight
S15E21 - Let Live Trees Flourish in This Living Hell
When a young couple are cheated out of their land by corrupt authorities and businessmen, it is up to Nakamura, Jo, and Tetsu to dole out the appropriate punishment.
Oct. 5, 1979, midnight
S15E22 - No Parent Knows Joy Without Hardship
It’s a different kind of family drama when a woman from Mondo and Tetsu’s past arrives in town with a child she claims is Mondo’s, and a ruthless killer in pursuit.
Oct. 12, 1979, midnight
S15E23 - Murdered for Going Too Far
When Mondo falls behind on his arrest quota and must also foil a plot to kill Boss Tenjin in jail, he comes up with one solution for both problems: arrest his friends!
Oct. 19, 1979, midnight
S15E24 - Evil Encroaches Upon a Love That Doubts
Ruthless developers and officials plot to tear down some row houses and build a giant pleasure garden… but unfortunately, those are the houses where Tetsu, Jo and Okin live.
Oct. 26, 1979, midnight
S15E25 - An Incompetent Crow Sharpens His Claws
When an ambitious noblewoman’s son fails to gain admission to an exclusive school, the deadly Tiger Mom will stop at nothing, even murder, to get him in.
Nov. 2, 1979, midnight
S15E26 - No Love Lost for Resplendent Edo
When a drought causes most of the wells in Edo to go dry, the rich hoard the little water that remains while the poor become willing to do anything to get it.
Nov. 16, 1979, midnight
S15E27 - Episode 27
Nov. 23, 1979, midnight
S15E28 - Episode 28
Nov. 30, 1979, midnight
S15E29 - Episode 29
Dec. 7, 1979, midnight
S15E30 - Episode 30
Dec. 14, 1979, midnight
S15E31 - Episode 31
Dec. 21, 1979, midnight
S15E32 - Episode 32
Dec. 28, 1979, midnight
S15E33 - Episode 33
Jan. 4, 1980, midnight
S15E34 - Episode 34
Jan. 11, 1980, midnight
S15E35 - Episode 35
Jan. 18, 1980, midnight
S15E36 - Episode 36
Jan. 25, 1980, midnight
S15E37 - Episode 37
Feb. 1, 1980, midnight
S15E38 - Episode 38
Feb. 8, 1980, midnight
S15E39 - Episode 39
Feb. 15, 1980, midnight
S15E40 - Episode 40
Feb. 22, 1980, midnight
S15E41 - Episode 41
Feb. 29, 1980, midnight
S15E42 - Episode 42
March 7, 1980, midnight
S15E43 - Episode 43
March 21, 1980, midnight
S15E44 - Episode 44
March 28, 1980, midnight
S15E45 - Episode 45
April 4, 1980, midnight
S15E46 - Episode 46
April 11, 1980, midnight
S15E47 - Episode 47
April 18, 1980, midnight
S15E48 - Episode 48
April 25, 1980, midnight
S15E49 - Episode 49
May 2, 1980, midnight
S15E50 - Episode 50
May 9, 1980, midnight
S15E51 - Episode 51
May 16, 1980, midnight
S15E52 - Episode 52
May 23, 1980, midnight
S15E53 - Episode 53
May 30, 1980, midnight
S15E54 - Episode 54
June 6, 1980, midnight
S15E55 - Episode 55
June 13, 1980, midnight
S15E56 - Episode 56
June 20, 1980, midnight
S15E57 - Episode 57
June 27, 1980, midnight
S15E58 - Episode 58
July 4, 1980, midnight
S15E59 - Episode 59
July 11, 1980, midnight
S15E60 - Episode 60
July 18, 1980, midnight
S15E61 - Episode 61
Aug. 8, 1980, midnight
S15E62 - Episode 62
Aug. 15, 1980, midnight
S15E63 - Episode 63
Aug. 22, 1980, midnight
S15E64 - Episode 64
Aug. 29, 1980, midnight
S15E65 - Episode 65
Sept. 5, 1980, midnight
S15E66 - Episode 66
Sept. 12, 1980, midnight
S15E67 - Episode 67
Sept. 19, 1980, midnight
S15E68 - Episode 68
Sept. 26, 1980, midnight
S15E69 - Episode 69
Oct. 3, 1980, midnight
S15E70 - Episode 70
Oct. 10, 1980, midnight
S15E71 - Episode 71
Oct. 17, 1980, midnight
S15E72 - Episode 72
Oct. 24, 1980, midnight
S15E73 - Episode 73
Oct. 31, 1980, midnight
S15E74 - Episode 74
Nov. 14, 1980, midnight
S15E75 - Episode 75
Nov. 21, 1980, midnight
S15E76 - Episode 76
Nov. 28, 1980, midnight
S15E77 - Episode 77
Dec. 5, 1980, midnight
S15E78 - Episode 78
Dec. 12, 1980, midnight
S15E79 - Episode 79
Dec. 19, 1980, midnight
S15E80 - Episode 80
Dec. 26, 1980, midnight
S15E81 - Episode 81
Jan. 9, 1981, midnight
S15E82 - Episode 82
Jan. 16, 1981, midnight
S15E83 - Episode 83
Jan. 23, 1981, midnight
S15E84 - Episode 84
Jan. 30, 1981, midnight
Network: tv asahi
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 20 min.
Released: Sept. 1, 1972
Last Air Date: June 26, 2009, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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