Hissatsu Series: Hissatsu Shigotonin
Season 15 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Hissatsu Series Season 14.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 15 Progress Shield
Sell Your Life, Get Gibbeted
May 18, 1979 · 45 min
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.
The Bloody Wish Left in Prison
May 25, 1979 · 45 min
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.
No Pity for the Outcasts
Jun 1, 1979 · 45 min
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.
Human Trash, Human Payment
Jun 8, 1979 · 45 min
When a mentally unstable gangster launches a series of bloody attacks against other Yakuza, Crime Boss Koroku hires Mondo to be his personal bodyguard.
Hang Buddha!
Jun 15, 1979 · 45 min
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.
The Grudge Carved into the Walls
Jun 22, 1979 · 45 min
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.
Deep Abysses in Closed Eyes
Jun 29, 1979 · 45 min
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?
The Power of Bare Grass
Jul 6, 1979 · 45 min
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.
The Ones Who Use People, the Ones Who Are Used
Jul 13, 1979 · 45 min
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.
Cloth Thief, Jet Black
Jul 20, 1979 · 45 min
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.
A Plot Behind Exile
Jul 27, 1979 · 45 min
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.
A Woman's Hellish Journey
Aug 3, 1979 · 45 min
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.
The Worse They Are, the Better They Seem
Aug 10, 1979 · 45 min
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.
A Paper to Stake One's Life On
Aug 17, 1979 · 45 min
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.
The Inn at Which Night Bares its Fangs
Aug 24, 1979 · 45 min
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.
The False Tears of a Scoundrel
Aug 31, 1979 · 45 min
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.
To Throw Love Away and Wish for Death
Sep 7, 1979 · 45 min
The Punishers become involved when two vengeful sisters seek to expose a group of oil merchants who had their father wrongfully executed for arson.
Everything's Prepared, Now for the Punishment
Sep 14, 1979 · 45 min
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.
Hate the Sin, Hate the Sinner
Sep 21, 1979 · 45 min
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.
Darkness Smites the Woman Pursued
Sep 28, 1979 · 45 min
While the police scour the town for a knife-wielding murderer, Okin finds herself trapped in her home with a very unwelcome guest.
Let Live Trees Flourish in This Living Hell
Oct 5, 1979 · 45 min
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.
No Parent Knows Joy Without Hardship
Oct 12, 1979 · 45 min
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.
Murdered for Going Too Far
Oct 19, 1979 · 45 min
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!
Evil Encroaches Upon a Love That Doubts
Oct 26, 1979 · 45 min
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.
An Incompetent Crow Sharpens His Claws
Nov 2, 1979 · 45 min
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.
No Love Lost for Resplendent Edo
Nov 16, 1979 · 45 min
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.