TV series
Hissatsu Series
1972 · 31 seasons
Quietly grim period drama where hired killers move through rain-soaked streets, trading moral weight for tense, deliberate confrontations.
- Created by
- Shotaro Ikenami
- Overview
- The Hissatsu series is a long-running prime-time popular television Jidaigeki series about assassins in Japan. Hissatsu Shikakenin is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel Shiokinin Fujieda Baian, but its sequels are only inspired by it.
- How it feels
- Tense, dark, melancholic and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Revenge, justice, violence, morality
- Content
- Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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