Professional Killers (1972)
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
Hiroyuki Ôta
Mankichi
Ken Okamoto
Hikojirô
Shōtarō Ikenami
Novel
Masaaki Hirao
Original Music Composer
Hisashi Yamauchi
Producer / Writer
Hiroki Matsuno
Director
Akira Matsumoto
Director
Kenji Misumi
Director
Kuniya Okuma
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
Yôichirô Mikawa
Old monk
Ichiro Chagawa
Tadokoro
Hisao Toake
Tsujiya
Gō Ibuki
Hanjiro
Sakae Umezu
Kanezo
Gen Kimura
Ninzaburo
Torahiko Hamada
Katsugoro Iseya
Yumi Kanai
Seiji Matsuyama
Seishirō Hara
Noboru Matsuhashi
Chota Tamagawa
Akiji Kobayashi
Kensaku Hara
Akihiko Katayama
Masahiro Sumiyoshi
Eiko Azusa
Fuyuki Murakami
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Nobuyuki Katsube
Sota Ohashi
Kiyoshi Yanagawa
Yasuhiko Shima
Megumi Tama
Kei Satō
Shinji Takano
Sachio Sakai
Tetsuyuki Wakabayashi
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
Ulf Otsuki
Michiko Honda
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
Mitsuo Nagata
Yasukiyo Umeno
Takao Ito
Masami Shimojō
Kazuya Kosaka
Kojin Tokuda
Tatsuo Terashima
Miyoko Akaza
Toshie Nihon'yanagi
Masahiko Arima
Kanta Kisaragi
Akira Hamada
Akio Kobori
Omenosuke Ichikawa
Toshio Chiba
Yūji Hamada
Asao Uchida
Mayumi Nagisa
Yoshiko Shinohara
Rokku Furukawa
Hisashi Hidaka
Saburo Ukita
Takashi Toyama
Hisao Hamita
Michiko Koyano
Tatsuo Nishiyama
Shōji Mori
Seizaburō Kawazu
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Jiro Miyaguchi
Teruo Ishiyama
Ryutaro Otomo
Yūsaku Terashima
Eishin Tono
Rokkō Toura
Tomoki Kenmochi
Takashi Ebata
Tadashi Iwata
Minken Karasawa
Ryuji Kita
Yasuhisa Sonoda
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 2, 1972
Original Name必殺仕掛人
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes33
Running Time56m
Genres
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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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