Series
Wounded Angels
Action & AdventureCrimeComedyDrama
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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Seasons & episodes
- 1宝石泥棒に子守唄を5 Oct 1974Osamu, 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...
- 2悪女にトラック一杯の幸せを12 Oct 1974Osamu 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!
- 3ヌードダンサーに愛の炎を19 Oct 1974Akira 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.
- 4港町に男涙のブルースを26 Oct 1974Osamu is sent to find a rival gang's heroin shipping lane and goes to a remote port town.
- 5殺人者に怒りの雷光を2 Nov 1974Someone is murdering Ayabe's gang members in brutal and unusual ways, and as their numbers dwindle, they begin to get crazy...
- 6草原に黒い十字架を9 Nov 1974Akira 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...
- 7自動車泥棒にラブソングを16 Nov 1974Akira and Osamu are sent to break up a car-thieving ring, but end up in hot water.
- 8偽札造りに愛のメロディーを23 Nov 1974A master counterfeiter wants to give up the profession, but Ayabe sends Osamu to take him for herself.
- 9ピエロに結婚行進曲を30 Nov 1974Ayabe 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.
- 10金庫破りに赤いバラを7 Dec 1974Akira 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.
- 11シンデレラの死に母の歌を14 Dec 1974Osamu and Akira must decide which of two women is the real heir to an old millionaire's fortune.
- 12非情の街に狼の歌を21 Dec 1974When 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.
- 13可愛いい女に愛の別れを28 Dec 1974Akira 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...
- 14母のない子に浜千鳥を4 Jan 1975Osamu 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.
- 15つよがり女に涙酒を11 Jan 1975Osamu 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...
- 16愛の情熱に別れの接吻を18 Jan 1975Osamu 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.)
- 17回転木馬に熱いさよならを25 Jan 1975A 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.
- 18リングサイドに花一輪を1 Feb 1975Osamu 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.
- 19街の灯に桜貝の夢を8 Feb 1975Osamu 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.
- 20兄妹に十日町小唄を15 Feb 1975Akira 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).
- 21欲ぼけおやじにネムの木を22 Feb 1975Osamu 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.
- 22くちなしの花に別れのバラードを1 Mar 1975Osamu and Akira have to kidnap a disabled bride away from a forced marriage.
- 23母の胸に悲しみの眠りを8 Mar 1975A mother hires Akira and Osamu to find the cause of death of her daughter, who was found floating dead in a river.
- 24渡辺綱に小指の思い出を15 Mar 1975Osamu 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.
- 25虫けらどもに寂しい春を22 Mar 1975Osamu and Akira are hired by a prominent writer's lover to discover why he has seemingly "changed" into a different personality altogether.
- 26祭りのあとにさすらいの日々を29 Mar 1975Osamu 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.
Details
- First aired
- 5 Oct 1974
- Last aired
- 29 Mar 1975
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- Japanese
- Network
- Nippon News Network
- Episodes
- 26
- Votes
- 3 on TMDB
Cast
Yutaka MizutaniAkira Inui
Kenichi HagiwaraOsamu Kogure
Shin KishidaTatsumi
Kyôko KishidaAyabe Takako
Yuki HornKyoko Asakawa
Kō NishimuraDetective Kaizu
