Hissatsu Shigotonin is back!
Dec. 30th, 2008 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarkerOkay, I'm probably going to be a fanboy this season. Maybe I'll blog the episodes!
I just watched the three hour special (Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007), which apparently was run largely so that they could announce that there will be a special 1/4 (Hissatsu Shigotonin 2009), and then regular shows starting 1/9.
For those who may be wondering, it's a TV show. A jidai gekki -- samurai drama -- centering around a set of secret killers who deal out justice. So in the three hour special, for example, a young woman tries to kill the bad guy, and ends up dead. The bad guy has her body dumped, and it looks like suicide. So nothing is going to happen. Except . . . her young son dumps his handful of change on the altar of the shigotonin. He wants justice! And they take the money and wander off. Then one by one, they kill the bad guys. But part of it is the secret killers -- a painter, a man playing with toys, and so on. Mostly not samurai, just people with special talents (the painter seemingly paints his victims with incendiary liquid, and covers their burning faces with a sheet of paper with a sketch of a devil. And so on)
Anyway -- stylized shows, where the bad guys always end up dead. But there's the intermediate point, where it looks as if they are going to get away with it. And the secret killers commit their stylized justice to a flamenco musical background. Just fun!
And I'll be watching.
I just watched the three hour special (Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007), which apparently was run largely so that they could announce that there will be a special 1/4 (Hissatsu Shigotonin 2009), and then regular shows starting 1/9.
For those who may be wondering, it's a TV show. A jidai gekki -- samurai drama -- centering around a set of secret killers who deal out justice. So in the three hour special, for example, a young woman tries to kill the bad guy, and ends up dead. The bad guy has her body dumped, and it looks like suicide. So nothing is going to happen. Except . . . her young son dumps his handful of change on the altar of the shigotonin. He wants justice! And they take the money and wander off. Then one by one, they kill the bad guys. But part of it is the secret killers -- a painter, a man playing with toys, and so on. Mostly not samurai, just people with special talents (the painter seemingly paints his victims with incendiary liquid, and covers their burning faces with a sheet of paper with a sketch of a devil. And so on)
Anyway -- stylized shows, where the bad guys always end up dead. But there's the intermediate point, where it looks as if they are going to get away with it. And the secret killers commit their stylized justice to a flamenco musical background. Just fun!
And I'll be watching.
