Wounded Angels (1974)
Two lovable idiot "private detectives" (or at least, that's their cover story —more like gangsters) try to make ends meet on the mean streets of Tokyo.
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Episode 1 - 宝石泥棒に子守唄を
Release Date: 1974-10-05Osamu, a gangster who works for "Ayabe Information Services" as a "private detective", is given a very interesting job: he has to pretend to rob a jewelry store, hide the "goods", and let himself get arrested...
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Episode 2 - 悪女にトラック一杯の幸せを
Release Date: 1974-10-12Osamu and Akira team up with a girl who has come into possession of a truck full of illegal bootleg silverware; they are determined to sell it, but nobody will buy!
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Episode 3 - ヌードダンサーに愛の炎を
Release Date: 1974-10-19Akira and Osamu are hired to try to convince two strippers to return to their loving families, but end up in the middle of a yakuza turf war.
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Episode 4 - 港町に男涙のブルースを
Release Date: 1974-10-26Osamu is sent to find a rival gang's heroin shipping lane and goes to a remote port town.
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Episode 5 - 殺人者に怒りの雷光を
Release Date: 1974-11-02Someone is murdering Ayabe's gang members in brutal and unusual ways, and as their numbers dwindle, they begin to get crazy...
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Episode 6 - 草原に黒い十字架を
Release Date: 1974-11-09Akira and Osamu are hired to protect a priceless European painting on display, but they manage to get it stolen right out from under their nose, by a tiny little cat burglar...
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Episode 7 - 自動車泥棒にラブソングを
Release Date: 1974-11-16Akira and Osamu are sent to break up a car-thieving ring, but end up in hot water.
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Episode 8 - 偽札造りに愛のメロディーを
Release Date: 1974-11-23A master counterfeiter wants to give up the profession, but Ayabe sends Osamu to take him for herself.
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Episode 9 - ピエロに結婚行進曲を
Release Date: 1974-11-30Ayabe feels the love-lights (or maybe feels her biological clock ticking) and has decided to marry a suave older (?) gentleman, but all 3 remaining gang members are against it because the guy gives them bad vibes.
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Episode 10 - 金庫破りに赤いバラを
Release Date: 1974-12-07Akira and Osamu are supposed to steal certain documents for Ayabe, but someone frames them (and a rival thief) for murder. Panicking, they form an unlikely (and surprisingly homoerotic) alliance to try to save their own skins.
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Episode 11 - シンデレラの死に母の歌を
Release Date: 1974-12-14Osamu and Akira must decide which of two women is the real heir to an old millionaire's fortune.
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Episode 12 - 非情の街に狼の歌を
Release Date: 1974-12-21When Osamu breaks his leg, Akira must take his place in an undercover operation meant to flush out a man who stole millions of dollars from his company and ran away from his wife.
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Episode 13 - 可愛いい女に愛の別れを
Release Date: 1974-12-28Akira and Osamu are keeping a rich girl in their apartment. Ayabe tricked her into voluntary captivity with them while Ayabe tries to shake down her father for money. Things get bad when Osamu runs out of money and turns into a shrieking harpy, and worse when the girl's father goes missing...
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Episode 14 - 母のない子に浜千鳥を
Release Date: 1975-01-04Osamu discovers his young son is missing, abducted by his late wife's sister, who is using the child to try and get child support payments from... a gangster who is also a hairdresser.
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Episode 15 - つよがり女に涙酒を
Release Date: 1975-01-11Osamu must find the kidnapped son of a magnate. The son was known to consort with a cabaret singer, so Osamu goes to investigate her first...
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Episode 16 - 愛の情熱に別れの接吻を
Release Date: 1975-01-18Osamu spends the night with a go-go girl, then must discover the secret mistress of a corporate bigwig. (Surprisingly, these are not in fact the same woman.)
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Episode 17 - 回転木馬に熱いさよならを
Release Date: 1975-01-25A man attempts to embezzle money from a kids' park; Ayabe Co. is hired to figure out who and stop the impending doom of the merry go round.
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Episode 18 - リングサイドに花一輪を
Release Date: 1975-02-01Osamu and Akira are sent to cause a ruckus in a local boxing gym to lower its land value and drive the owner out of business.
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Episode 19 - 街の灯に桜貝の夢を
Release Date: 1975-02-08Osamu and Akira can't get any work, so they try to open a snack bar. This isn't very successful, until they hit on making it a sexy snack bar. Then they have the genius idea of trying to blackmail the patrons.
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Episode 20 - 兄妹に十日町小唄を
Release Date: 1975-02-15Akira and Osamu wake up to discover a baby left on their doorstep. They have no means to take care of it, so they entrust it to a local doctor, who wants to adopt it, and hires them to find its parents (to draw up real adoption papers).
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Episode 21 - 欲ぼけおやじにネムの木を
Release Date: 1975-02-22Osamu and Akira are sent to steal a rich man's deposit in a tax-shelter bank. However, they don't know which bank it is, so they have to get that info out of him first.
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Episode 22 - くちなしの花に別れのバラードを
Release Date: 1975-03-01Osamu and Akira have to kidnap a disabled bride away from a forced marriage.
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Episode 23 - 母の胸に悲しみの眠りを
Release Date: 1975-03-08A mother hires Akira and Osamu to find the cause of death of her daughter, who was found floating dead in a river.
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Episode 24 - 渡辺綱に小指の思い出を
Release Date: 1975-03-15Osamu is hired to play a "real" yakuza and deal false cards to a group of gamblers. Unbeknownst to him, the client is using him to dominate the others in the group.
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Episode 25 - 虫けらどもに寂しい春を
Release Date: 1975-03-22Osamu and Akira are hired by a prominent writer's lover to discover why he has seemingly "changed" into a different personality altogether.
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Episode 26 - 祭りのあとにさすらいの日々を
Release Date: 1975-03-29Osamu goes to see if Ayabe has any work for him, but it turns out her operation has been shut down by the police, and he and Akira are evicted. They begin to search for Ayabe to try and get some money from her, but Akira takes ill.