Professional Killers (Season 1)

仕掛けて仕損じなし (Episode 1)

Writer: Kaneo Ikegami

Air date: 1972-09-02

Runtime: 48 min

Overview: 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...

Episode 2 (Episode 2)

Writer: Takeo Kunihiro

Air date: 1972-09-09

Runtime: 48 min

Episode 3 (Episode 3)

Writer: Tetsurô Abe

Air date: 1972-09-16

Runtime: 48 min

Episode 4 (Episode 4)

Writer: Kaneo Ikegami

Air date: 1972-09-23

Runtime: 48 min

Episode 5 (Episode 5)

Writer: Kaneo Ikegami

Air date: 1972-09-30

Runtime: 48 min

Episode 6 (Episode 6)

Writer: Yamada Takayuki

Air date: 1972-10-07

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 7 (Episode 7)

Writer: Yamada Takayuki

Air date: 1972-10-14

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 8 (Episode 8)

Writer: Tetsurô Abe

Air date: 1972-10-21

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 9 (Episode 9)

Writer: Yamada Takayuki

Air date: 1972-10-28

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 10 (Episode 10)

Writer: Takeo Kunihiro

Air date: 1972-11-04

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 11 (Episode 11)

Writer: Takeo Kunihiro

Air date: 1972-11-11

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 12 (Episode 12)

Writer: Tetsurô Abe

Air date: 1972-11-18

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 13 (Episode 13)

Writer: Yamada Takayuki

Air date: 1972-11-25

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 14 (Episode 14)

Writer: Toshirō Ishidō

Air date: 1972-12-02

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 15 (Episode 15)

Writer: Yamada Takayuki

Air date: 1972-12-09

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 16 (Episode 16)

Writer: Akira Hayasaka

Air date: 1972-12-16

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 17 (Episode 17)

Writer: Hisashi Yamauchi

Air date: 1972-12-23

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 18 (Episode 18)

Writer: Takeo Kunihiro

Air date: 1972-12-30

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 19 (Episode 19)

Writer: Yamada Takayuki

Air date: 1973-01-06

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 20 (Episode 20)

Writer: Tetsurô Abe

Air date: 1973-01-13

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 21 (Episode 21)

Writer: Tetsurô Abe

Air date: 1973-01-20

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 22 (Episode 22)

Writer: Hideo Honda

Air date: 1973-01-27

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 23 (Episode 23)

Writer: Yamada Takayuki

Air date: 1973-02-03

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 24 (Episode 24)

Writer: Yuichi Ikeda

Air date: 1973-02-10

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 25 (Episode 25)

Writer: Takeo Kunihiro

Air date: 1973-02-17

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 26 (Episode 26)

Writer: Hideo Honda

Air date: 1973-02-24

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 27 (Episode 27)

Writer: Toshirō Ishidō

Air date: 1973-03-03

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 28 (Episode 28)

Writer: Tetsurô Abe

Air date: 1973-03-10

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 29 (Episode 29)

Writer: Yukio Tsuda

Air date: 1973-03-17

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 30 (Episode 30)

Writer: Akira Hayasaka

Air date: 1973-03-24

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 31 (Episode 31)

Writer: Takeo Kunihiro

Air date: 1973-03-31

Runtime: 47 min

Episode 32 (Episode 32)

Writer: Yamada Takayuki

Air date: 1973-04-07

Runtime: 46 min

Episode 33 (Episode 33)

Writer: Takeo Kunihiro

Air date: 1973-04-14

Runtime: 46 min