必殺！ 主水死す
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an assassin, who by chance encounters an old friend...
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必殺！ 主水死す
1996
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豪剣！賞金稼ぎ 無用ノ介 二つの顔のお尋ね者・修羅街道に美女七人
Duration: 2 h 20 m | 1990
Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who is on a never-ending quest to find the man who murdered his father. The usually aloof Muyonosuke, who never would pause to help the common man winds up befriending an orphan boy and a mysterious woman, and getting involved in a feud between two families, but finds out there is a high power behind the curtain who pulls their strings.
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