is a 1984 film based on the television jidaigeki Hissatsu Shigotonin series. The film is an occasionally whimsical Japanese drama about assassins.
Plot
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Nakamura Mondo is an officer of the Minamimachi Bugyosho, but is also the head of the assassin group. Unidentified corpses are discovered one after another in the town of Edo. Mondo is ordered by his boss Tanaka to investigate a serial murder.
Cast
Makoto Fujita as Nakamura Mondo
Kunihiko Mitamura as Hide
Izumi Ayukawa as Kayo
Kiyoshi Nakajō as Yuji
Isuzu Yamada as Oriku
Kin Sugai as Nakamura Sen
Mari Shiraki as Nakamura Ritsu
Toshio Yamauchi as Tanaka
Gannosuke Ashiya as Masa
Keiko Hayshi as Otami
Shōhei Hino as Senta
Kie Nakai as Oyō
Yukiji Asaoka as Okō
Naoko Ken as Oyone
Fujio Akatsuka as Kasumi no Hankichi
Takao Kataoka as Asanosuke
Reception
Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role : Kin Sugai