Hissatsu: Sure Death

Hissatsu: Sure Death
Film poster
Directed byMasahisa Sadanaga
Written byTatsuo Nogami
Tsuyoshi Yoshida
StarringMakoto Fujita
Kunihiko Mitamura
Isuzu Yamada
Production
company
Shôchiku Eiga
Release date
  • January 1, 1984 (1984-01-01) (Japan)
Running time
123 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Hissatsu: Sure Death (Japanese: 必殺! THE HISSATSU) is a 1984 Japanese film based on the jidaigeki television series Hissatsu Shigotonin.[1] The film is an occasionally whimsical drama about assassins.[2][3][4][5]

Plot

Nakamura Mondo is an officer of the Minamimachi Bugyosho, but is also the head of the assassin group. When unidentified corpses are discovered one after another in the town of Edo, Mondo is ordered by his boss Tanaka to investigate a serial murder.[6]

Cast

Reception

References

  1. ^ "必殺". Agency for Cultural Affairs 映画情報システム. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  2. ^ 1984年邦画 キネマ旬報 1985年2月下旬号、キネマ旬報社、1985 p.120
  3. ^ ShukanToyo Keizai August 2, 1985 p.122
  4. ^ "必殺". wowow. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ^ "必殺". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  6. ^ "必殺". wowow. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Japan Academy Film Prize Association". Retrieved 12 December 2021.