Professional Killers (1972)
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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
Gorō Mutsumi
Self - Narrator
Yumiko Nogawa
Gin
Sō Yamamura
Han'emon Otowaya
Yoichi Hayashi
Sanai Nishimura
Taisaku Akino
Senzô
Hiroyuki Ôta
Mankichi
Ken Okamoto
Hikojirô
Shōtarō Ikenami
Novel
Rumi Matsumoto
Omiyo
Masaaki Hirao
Original Music Composer
Tamao Nakamura
Okura
Hisashi Yamauchi
Producer / Writer
Hiroki Matsuno
Director
Kenji Misumi
Director
Akira Matsumoto
Director
Kuniya Okuma
Director
Kazuo Hase
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Takayuki Yamada
Writer
Takeo Kunihiro
Writer
Tetsurô Abe
Writer
Kaneo Ikegami
Writer
Akira Hayasaka
Writer
Hideo Honda
Writer
Yukio Tsuda
Writer
Yuichi Ikeda
Writer
Nakajirō Tomita
Tatsumiya
Kaku Takashina
Oiwa
Hideo Murota
Guard Kawachi
Masataka Iwao
Oiwa's subordinate
Keiko Nishiyama
Hatsumi
Mari Shiraki
Oren
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
Teruo Ishiyama
Toshiaki Nishizawa
Cathy
Rentaro Mikuni
Mike Maki
Yuki Kawamura
Ushio Akashi
Yasuhisa Sonoda
Midori Isomura
Akiji Kobayashi
Kensaku Hara
Takako Ashizawa
Teruko Omi
Keiko Koyanagi
Nana Ozaki
Tōru Abe
Shigeru Amachi
Tatsuo Terashima
Takanobu Hozumi
Takashi Kanda
Ulf Otsuki
Michiko Honda
Yûjirô Ishihama
Shōzō Nanbu
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Junshi Shimada
Hideo Kidokoro
Motoo Noguchi
Toshirō Ishidō
Writer
Takahiro Tamura
Masayo Banri
Sanji Kojima
Yūki Mizuhara
Yūnosuke Itō
Keishi Arashi
Ai Sasaki
Tetsuyuki Wakabayashi
Hiroshi Kitasôma
Mitsuo Nagata
Miyoko Akaza
Tokie Hidari
Yutaka Hayashi
Sachio Sakai
Jinichiro Ando
Yoshihiko Aoyama
Toshie Nihon'yanagi
Masahiko Arima
Kanta Kisaragi
Akira Hamada
Toshiaki Amada
Michio Kida
Fumie Noguchi
Michio Denpo
Keiko Yukishiro
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Shoichi Hirai
Mieko Aoyagi
Eimei Esumi
Daizo Kitamura
Shinichi Yanagisawa
Manabu Morita
Shiro Tamaki
Yasuno Sakai
Akihiko Katayama
Fuyuki Murakami
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Nobuyuki Katsube
Sota Ohashi
Kiyoshi Yanagawa
Yasuhiko Shima
Megumi Tama
Toshio Chiba
Yūji Hamada
Asao Uchida
Mayumi Nagisa
Yoshiko Shinohara
Rokku Furukawa
Hisashi Hidaka
Noboru Matsuhashi
Eiko Azusa
Masahiro Sumiyoshi
Takako Yagi
Fumitake Ōmura
Yoshi Katō
Seiichirō Kameishi
Akane Kawasaki
Ryutaro Otomo
Yūsaku Terashima
Ryūnosuke Kaneda
Ryūtarō Gomi
Akira Nakao
Kin'ya Suzuki
Eishin Tono
Rokkō Toura
Tomoki Kenmochi
Takashi Ebata
Tadashi Iwata
Minken Karasawa
Ryuji Kita
Keisuke Sonoi
Seizaburō Kawazu
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Jiro Miyaguchi
Hisao Hamita
Michiko Koyano
Shonosuke Sawamura
Ryūzō Hayashi
Rumi Sakakibara
Hiroshi Ishikawa
Kei Taguchi
Kunio Kaga
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 2, 1972
Original Name必殺仕掛人
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes33
Running Time56m
Genres
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.