Professional Killers (1972)
Professional Killers (1972)
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Plot.
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again..
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Cast & Crew.

Ken Ogata
Baian Fujieda

Yoichi Hayashi
Sanai Nishimura

Gorō Mutsumi
Self - Narrator

Sō Yamamura
Hanemon Otowaya

Yumiko Nogawa
Gin

Tamao Nakamura
Okura

Taisaku Akino
Senzô

Rumi Matsumoto
Omiyo

Ken Okamoto
Hikojirô

Hiroyuki Ôta
Mankichi

Shōtarō Ikenami
Novel

Hisashi Yamauchi
Producer / Writer

Masaaki Hirao
Original Music Composer

Hiroki Matsuno
Director

Kuniya Okuma
Director

Akira Matsumoto
Director

Kenji Misumi
Director

Kazuo Hase
Director

Kinji Fukasaku
Director

Yamada Takayuki
Writer

Takeo Kunihiro
Writer

Tetsurô Abe
Writer

Kaneo Ikegami
Writer

Akira Hayasaka
Writer

Hideo Honda
Writer

Yuichi Ikeda
Writer

Yukio Tsuda
Writer

Nakajirō Tomita
Tatsumiya

Kaku Takashina
Oiwa

Hideo Murota
Guard Kawachi

Masataka Iwao
Oiwa's subordinate

Mari Shiraki
Oren

Keiko Nishiyama
Hatsumi

Tatsuo Endō
Genjuro Onodera

Yōichirō Mikawa
Old monk

Ichiro Chagawa
Tadokoro

Hisao Toake
Tsujiya

Gō Ibuki
Hanjiro

Sakae Umezu
Kanezo

Gen Kimura
Ninzaburo

Torahiko Hamada
Katsugoro Iseya

Chota Tamagawa

Seishirō Hara

Seiji Matsuyama

Yumi Kanai

Kensaku Hara

Akiji Kobayashi

Sachio Sakai

Ulf Otsuki

Michiko Honda

Yoshi Katō

Manabu Morita

Shiro Tamaki

Akihiko Katayama

Fuyuki Murakami

Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Fumitake Ōmura

Nobuyuki Katsube

Sota Ohashi

Kiyoshi Yanagawa

Yasuhiko Shima

Megumi Tama

Kei Satō

Shinji Takano

Takako Yagi

Masahiro Sumiyoshi

Eiko Azusa

Noboru Matsuhashi

Katsunosuke Hori

Shuzo Sakai

Yutaro Ban

Hiroshi Kitasôma

Shogen Nitta

Harumi Urazato

Ken Mitsuda

Yasuno Sakai

Yoshihiko Aoyama

Eimei Esumi

Daizo Kitamura

Shinichi Yanagisawa

Takanobu Hozumi

Takashi Kanda

Keisuke Sonoi

Keiko Kuni

Jun Fujio

Takako Ashizawa

Tokie Hidari

Yutaka Hayashi

Jinichiro Ando

Shoichi Hirai

Mieko Aoyagi

Yûjirô Ishihama

Shōzō Nanbu

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Junshi Shimada

Hideo Kidokoro

Motoo Noguchi

Shonosuke Sawamura

Ryūzō Hayashi

Rumi Sakakibara

Hiroshi Ishikawa

Kei Taguchi

Kunio Kaga

Chikako Kaga

Toshio Matsumoto

Masakane Yonekura

Sadao Mizutani

Yūnosuke Itō

Keishi Arashi

Ai Sasaki

Tetsuyuki Wakabayashi

Mitsuo Nagata

Tōru Abe

Nana Ozaki

Kanta Kisaragi

Akira Hamada

Toshiaki Amada

Toshirō Ishidō
Writer

Takahiro Tamura

Masayo Banri

Kojin Tokuda

Tatsuo Terashima

Mayumi Nagisa

Akio Kobori

Omenosuke Ichikawa

Toshio Chiba

Yūji Hamada

Asao Uchida

Saburo Ukita

Takashi Toyama

Hisao Hamita

Michiko Koyano

Tatsuo Nishiyama

Shōji Mori

Seizaburō Kawazu

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Jiro Miyaguchi

Teruo Ishiyama

Toshiaki Nishizawa

Teruko Omi

Keiko Koyanagi

Shigeru Amachi

Ryutaro Otomo

Yūsaku Terashima

Eishin Tono

Rokkō Toura

Tomoki Kenmochi

Takashi Ebata

Tadashi Iwata

Minken Karasawa

Ryuji Kita

Yasuhisa Sonoda

Midori Isomura

Miyoko Akaza

Yoshiko Shinohara

Rokku Furukawa

Hisashi Hidaka

Michio Kida

Fumie Noguchi

Michio Denpo
Media.

Details.
Release DateSeptember 2, 1972
Original Name必殺仕掛人
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes33
Running Time56m
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
jidai geki
Scripted
Wiki.
Hissatsu Shikakenin (必殺仕掛人) is a Japanese television jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in 1972–1973. It was the first in the Hissatsu series and is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel Shiokinin Fujieda Baian. Ken Ogata played Fujieda Baian.
Episode 1,2 and 24 were directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
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