Hissatsu Shigotonin

1. Sell Your Life, Get Gibbeted

Mondo Nakamura’s wife and coworkers think he’s incompetent. But at night he sheds his civil servant disguise, and teams up with Tetsu and Jo to fight crime and corruption.

1979-05-18 • 45 min

2. The Bloody Wish Left in Prison

Is a mysterious woman killing wealthy Soybean wholesalers and leaving playing cards on their bodies? In a strange twist, they become bodyguards for the next likely target.

1979-05-25 • 45 min

3. No Pity for the Outcasts

When Kanoke and Nebutsu are arrested after assassinating a rapist without Mondo’s help, Mondo must rescue them from a corrupt police official who murders girls for profit.

1979-06-01 • 45 min

4. Human Trash, Human Payment

When a mentally unstable gangster launches a series of bloody attacks against other Yakuza, Crime Boss Koroku hires Mondo to be his personal bodyguard.

1979-06-08 • 45 min

5. Hang Buddha!

The ruthless Daihachi of the Back Daruma Gang wants to drive a sweet potato shop’s owner off his land, so the owner turns to his old prison buddy, Nenbutsu, for help.

1979-06-15 • 45 min

6. The Grudge Carved into the Walls

When a group of Samurai begin killing peasants in order to test their swords, the Punishers are hired by a local prostitute whose father and sister were murdered.

1979-06-22 • 45 min

7. Deep Abysses in Closed Eyes

When a young woman attempts to murder a blind money lender, Mondo is forced to turn her over for execution… but is the blind man truly who and what he claims to be?

1979-06-29 • 45 min

8. The Power of Bare Grass

A dog-obsessed noblewoman has a series of young women beaten and disfigured by her giant body guard, but the plans to punish her are stymied by the fact that she has a gun.

1979-07-06 • 45 min

9. The Ones Who Use People, the Ones Who Are Used

Nenbutsu starts to have feelings for a new courtesan, but his hopes for romance go awry when it turns out that she is under the spell of a murderous pimp.

1979-07-13 • 45 min

10. Cloth Thief, Jet Black

When the father and fiancé of an old friend are murdered by one of the Shogun’s Concubine’s guards, Okin makes plans to infiltrate the Shogun’s harem.

1979-07-20 • 45 min

11. A Plot Behind Exile

Demon Iwa, an infamous lawman who frames innocent suspects to protect the wealthy, sets out to catch the Punishers, and his first target is Okin.

1979-07-27 • 45 min

12. A Woman's Hellish Journey

Han falls in love with a beautiful mute girl, whose entire family was enslaved and murdered by an ambitious Lord. Needless to say, it's Punishing Time.

1979-08-03 • 45 min

13. The Worse They Are, the Better They Seem

A potentially explosive crisis ensues when a rural samurai takes the daughter of a powerful retainer hostage in a shop filled with highly flammable oil and a lit candle.

1979-08-10 • 45 min

14. A Paper to Stake One's Life On

When Han’s mentor, a crusading tabloid sheet writer, takes on a developer whose negotiation techniques include blackmail and murder, the Punishers are drawn into the fray.

1979-08-17 • 45 min

15. The Inn at Which Night Bares its Fangs

On a dark and stormy night, a landslide traps Jo, Tetsu, and an assortment of unsavory travelers in a haunted Inn, while an unknown murderer picks them off one by one.

1979-08-24 • 45 min

16. The False Tears of a Scoundrel

A compulsive gambler is accused of a murder committed by a masked killer, the Punishers help to plot a temporary jailbreak, and fires break out across the city.

1979-08-31 • 45 min

17. To Throw Love Away and Wish for Death

The Punishers become involved when two vengeful sisters seek to expose a group of oil merchants who had their father wrongfully executed for arson.

1979-09-07 • 45 min

18. Everything's Prepared, Now for the Punishment

When a young bride to be is driven mad by a mysterious masked attacker, the Punishers must work around her amnesia to find clues that led toward the guilty party.

1979-09-14 • 45 min

19. Hate the Sin, Hate the Sinner

As a famine strikes Edo, Mondo must figure out how to rescue Jo and Tetsu, who were caught in a roundup of vagrants and sentenced to the life in the mines.

1979-09-21 • 45 min

20. Darkness Smites the Woman Pursued

While the police scour the town for a knife-wielding murderer, Okin finds herself trapped in her home with a very unwelcome guest.

1979-09-28 • 45 min

21. Let Live Trees Flourish in This Living Hell

When a young couple are cheated out of their land by corrupt authorities and businessmen, it is up to Nakamura, Jo, and Tetsu to dole out the appropriate punishment.

1979-10-05 • 45 min

22. No Parent Knows Joy Without Hardship

It’s a different kind of family drama when a woman from Mondo and Tetsu’s past arrives in town with a child she claims is Mondo’s, and a ruthless killer in pursuit.

1979-10-12 • 45 min

23. Murdered for Going Too Far

When Mondo falls behind on his arrest quota and must also foil a plot to kill Boss Tenjin in jail, he comes up with one solution for both problems: arrest his friends!

1979-10-19 • 45 min

24. Evil Encroaches Upon a Love That Doubts

Ruthless developers and officials plot to tear down some row houses and build a giant pleasure garden… but unfortunately, those are the houses where Tetsu, Jo and Okin live.

1979-10-26 • 45 min

25. An Incompetent Crow Sharpens His Claws

When an ambitious noblewoman’s son fails to gain admission to an exclusive school, the deadly Tiger Mom will stop at nothing, even murder, to get him in.

1979-11-02 • 45 min

26. No Love Lost for Resplendent Edo

When a drought causes most of the wells in Edo to go dry, the rich hoard the little water that remains while the poor become willing to do anything to get it.

1979-11-16 • 45 min

27. Episode 27

1979-11-23 • 45 min

28. Episode 28

1979-11-30 • 45 min

29. Episode 29

1979-12-07 • 45 min

30. Episode 30

1979-12-14 • 45 min

31. Episode 31

1979-12-21 • 45 min

32. Episode 32

1979-12-28 • 45 min

33. Episode 33

1980-01-04 • 45 min

34. Episode 34

1980-01-11 • 45 min

35. Episode 35

1980-01-18 • 45 min

36. Episode 36

1980-01-25 • 45 min

37. Episode 37

1980-02-01 • 45 min

38. Episode 38

1980-02-08 • 45 min

39. Episode 39

1980-02-15 • 45 min

40. Episode 40

1980-02-22 • 45 min

41. Episode 41

1980-02-29 • 45 min

42. Episode 42

1980-03-07 • 45 min

43. Episode 43

1980-03-21 • 45 min

44. Episode 44

1980-03-28 • 45 min

45. Episode 45

1980-04-04 • 45 min

46. Episode 46

1980-04-11 • 45 min

47. Episode 47

1980-04-18 • 45 min

48. Episode 48

1980-04-25 • 45 min

49. Episode 49

1980-05-02 • 45 min

50. Episode 50

1980-05-09 • 45 min

51. Episode 51

1980-05-16 • 45 min

52. Episode 52

1980-05-23 • 45 min

53. Episode 53

1980-05-30 • 45 min

54. Episode 54

1980-06-06 • 45 min

55. Episode 55

1980-06-13 • 45 min

56. Episode 56

1980-06-20 • 45 min

57. Episode 57

1980-06-27 • 45 min

58. Episode 58

1980-07-04 • 45 min

59. Episode 59

1980-07-11 • 45 min

60. Episode 60

1980-07-18 • 45 min

61. Episode 61

1980-08-08 • 45 min

62. Episode 62

1980-08-15 • 45 min

63. Episode 63

1980-08-22 • 45 min

64. Episode 64

1980-08-29 • 45 min

65. Episode 65

1980-09-05 • 45 min

66. Episode 66

1980-09-12 • 45 min

67. Episode 67

1980-09-19 • 45 min

68. Episode 68

1980-09-26 • 45 min

69. Episode 69

1980-10-03 • 45 min

70. Episode 70

1980-10-10 • 45 min

71. Episode 71

1980-10-17 • 45 min

72. Episode 72

1980-10-24 • 45 min

73. Episode 73

1980-10-31 • 45 min

74. Episode 74

1980-11-14 • 45 min

75. Episode 75

1980-11-21 • 45 min

76. Episode 76

1980-11-28 • 45 min

77. Episode 77

1980-12-05 • 45 min

78. Episode 78

1980-12-12 • 45 min

79. Episode 79

1980-12-19 • 45 min

80. Episode 80

1980-12-26 • 45 min

81. Episode 81

1981-01-09 • 45 min

82. Episode 82

1981-01-16 • 45 min

83. Episode 83

1981-01-23 • 45 min

84. Episode 84

1981-01-30 • 45 min