Hissatsu Series
·1972 - now·31S·returning
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.
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Seasons
31Otowaya Hanemon runs an employment agency. One day, he hires a ronin by the name of Nishimura Sanai, as well as a doctor by the name of Fujieda Baian, both of them secretly becoming professional kille…
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.
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.
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.
When a mentally unstable gangster launches a series of bloody attacks against other Yakuza, Crime Boss Koroku hires Mondo to be his personal bodyguard.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Punishers become involved when two vengeful sisters seek to expose a group of oil merchants who had their father wrongfully executed for arson.
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.
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.
While the police scour the town for a knife-wielding murderer, Okin finds herself trapped in her home with a very unwelcome guest.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.