is a Japanese television ''
jidaigeki
is a genre of film, television, video game, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning "period dramas", they are most often set during the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—''Portrait of Hel ...
'' or period drama, that was broadcast from 1979 to 1981. It is the 15th in the
''Hissatsu'' series. The drama was set to end after episode 26 with Nakamura Mondo's death, but won great popularity so the broadcast period was extended.
Plot
Nakamura Mondo was relegated to a post in
Hachioji from the Minamimachi Bugyōsho and he has retired from professional assassin. But one day he was ordered to return to the Minamimachi Bugyōsho. Shikazō worked behind the scenes to get Mondo back to the Minamimachi Bugyōsho. Shikazō asks Nakamura Mondo to kill a man, once Mondo refuses but he is blinded by big money and eventually take the offer. Mondo restarts killing villains again with Kazarishokunin no Hide and Nawate Samon.
Cast
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Makoto Fujita
, born Makoto Harada (April 13, 1933 – February 17, 2010), was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, the son of silent-film actor Rintarō Fujima, and started his career as a comedian in 1952.
Acting Roles
Fujita appeared in b ...
as Mondo Nakamura
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Kunihiko Mitamura
is a Japanese actor/singer. He is well known for his role in Taiyō ni Hoero! and Hide in the Hissatsu series.
Selected filmography Film
*''Almost Transparent Blue'' (1979) as Ryu
*'' Hissatsu: Sure Death'' (1984) as Hide
*''W's Tragedy'' (198 ...
as Kazarishokunin no Hide, a craftsman but also professional assassin.
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Goro Ibuki
is a Japanese actor. He is known for his parts in jidaigeki television dramas especially Kakusan in Mito Kōmon series, but is known as part of the cast of ''Samurai Sentai Shinkenger'' as Hikoma Kusakabe.
Filmography Film
*'' Bohachi Bush ...
as Nawate Samon, a
ronin.
*Izumi Ayukawa as Kayo
*Yuriko Mishima as Oshima
*Takao Yamada as Hankichi
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Isuzu Yamada
was a Japanese stage and screen actress whose career spanned seven decades.
Biography
Yamada was born in Osaka as Mitsu Yamada, the daughter of Kusudu Yamada, a shinpa actor specialising in onnagata roles, and Ritsu, a geisha. Under her mother ...
as Otowa
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Ganjirō Nakamura as Motojime Shikazō, the boss of Shigotonin team.
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Kin Sugai
(28 February 1926 – 10 August 2018) was a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 9th Hochi Film Award for '' The Funeral''. Sugai is famous for her role as Sen Nakamura in the jidaigeki drama Hissatsu series.
Sh ...
as Sen Nakamura
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Mari Shiraki
is a Japanese actress. She joined the Nikkatsu studio and appeared in about 100 films at Nikkatsu. Shiraki is well known for her role of Ritsu Nakamura on the ''jidaigeki'' television series '' Hissatsu''.
Selected filmography
Film
* The Naked ...
as Ritsu Nakamura
References
1979 Japanese television series debuts
1970s drama television series
Jidaigeki television series
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