TV Show Details
Air Date:January 9th, 2009
Last Air Date:June 5th, 2009
Network:tv asahi
Status:Ended
Genres:War & Politics
Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, TV Asahi, Shochiku
Mission To Kill (2009)
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Plot
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
