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.
Showing Season 15 of 31
Hissatsu Shigotonin
1979
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01. Sell Your Life, Get Gibbeted
1979-05-18
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.
02. The Bloody Wish Left in Prison
1979-05-25
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.
03. No Pity for the Outcasts
1979-06-01
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.
04. Human Trash, Human Payment
1979-06-08
When a mentally unstable gangster launches a series of bloody attacks against other Yakuza, Crime Boss Koroku hires Mondo to be his personal bodyguard.
05. Hang Buddha!
1979-06-15
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.
06. The Grudge Carved into the Walls
1979-06-22
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.
07. Deep Abysses in Closed Eyes
1979-06-29
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?
08. The Power of Bare Grass
1979-07-06
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.
09. The Ones Who Use People, the Ones Who Are Used
1979-07-13
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.
10. Cloth Thief, Jet Black
1979-07-20
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.
11. A Plot Behind Exile
1979-07-27
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.
12. A Woman's Hellish Journey
1979-08-03
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.
13. The Worse They Are, the Better They Seem
1979-08-10
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.
14. A Paper to Stake One's Life On
1979-08-17
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.
15. The Inn at Which Night Bares its Fangs
1979-08-24
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.
16. The False Tears of a Scoundrel
1979-08-31
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.
17. To Throw Love Away and Wish for Death
1979-09-07
The Punishers become involved when two vengeful sisters seek to expose a group of oil merchants who had their father wrongfully executed for arson.
18. Everything's Prepared, Now for the Punishment
1979-09-14
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.
19. Hate the Sin, Hate the Sinner
1979-09-21
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.
20. Darkness Smites the Woman Pursued
1979-09-28
While the police scour the town for a knife-wielding murderer, Okin finds herself trapped in her home with a very unwelcome guest.
21. Let Live Trees Flourish in This Living Hell
1979-10-05
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.
22. No Parent Knows Joy Without Hardship
1979-10-12
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.
23. Murdered for Going Too Far
1979-10-19
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!
24. Evil Encroaches Upon a Love That Doubts
1979-10-26
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.
25. An Incompetent Crow Sharpens His Claws
1979-11-02
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.
26. No Love Lost for Resplendent Edo
1979-11-16
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.
27. Episode 27
1979-11-23
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28. Episode 28
1979-11-30
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29. Episode 29
1979-12-07
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30. Episode 30
1979-12-14
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31. Episode 31
1979-12-21
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32. Episode 32
1979-12-28
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33. Episode 33
1980-01-04
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34. Episode 34
1980-01-11
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35. Episode 35
1980-01-18
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36. Episode 36
1980-01-25
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37. Episode 37
1980-02-01
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38. Episode 38
1980-02-08
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39. Episode 39
1980-02-15
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40. Episode 40
1980-02-22
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41. Episode 41
1980-02-29
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42. Episode 42
1980-03-07
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43. Episode 43
1980-03-21
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44. Episode 44
1980-03-28
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45. Episode 45
1980-04-04
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46. Episode 46
1980-04-11
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47. Episode 47
1980-04-18
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48. Episode 48
1980-04-25
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49. Episode 49
1980-05-02
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50. Episode 50
1980-05-09
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51. Episode 51
1980-05-16
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52. Episode 52
1980-05-23
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53. Episode 53
1980-05-30
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54. Episode 54
1980-06-06
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55. Episode 55
1980-06-13
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56. Episode 56
1980-06-20
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57. Episode 57
1980-06-27
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58. Episode 58
1980-07-04
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59. Episode 59
1980-07-11
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60. Episode 60
1980-07-18
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61. Episode 61
1980-08-08
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62. Episode 62
1980-08-15
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63. Episode 63
1980-08-22
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64. Episode 64
1980-08-29
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65. Episode 65
1980-09-05
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66. Episode 66
1980-09-12
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67. Episode 67
1980-09-19
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68. Episode 68
1980-09-26
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69. Episode 69
1980-10-03
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70. Episode 70
1980-10-10
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71. Episode 71
1980-10-17
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72. Episode 72
1980-10-24
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73. Episode 73
1980-10-31
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74. Episode 74
1980-11-14
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75. Episode 75
1980-11-21
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76. Episode 76
1980-11-28
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77. Episode 77
1980-12-05
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78. Episode 78
1980-12-12
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79. Episode 79
1980-12-19
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80. Episode 80
1980-12-26
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81. Episode 81
1981-01-09
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82. Episode 82
1981-01-16
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83. Episode 83
1981-01-23
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84. Episode 84
1981-01-30
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