Wounded Angels

S01E01

S01E01 5 Okt 74

宝石泥棒に子守唄を

Osamu, 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...

S01E02

S01E02 12 Okt 74

悪女にトラック一杯の幸せを

Osamu 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!

S01E03

S01E03 19 Okt 74

ヌードダンサーに愛の炎を

Akira 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.

S01E04

S01E04 26 Okt 74

港町に男涙のブルースを

Osamu is sent to find a rival gang's heroin shipping lane and goes to a remote port town.

S01E05

S01E05 2 Nov 74

殺人者に怒りの雷光を

Someone is murdering Ayabe's gang members in brutal and unusual ways, and as their numbers dwindle, they begin to get crazy...

S01E06

S01E06 9 Nov 74

草原に黒い十字架を

Akira 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...

S01E07

S01E07 16 Nov 74

自動車泥棒にラブソングを

Akira and Osamu are sent to break up a car-thieving ring, but end up in hot water.

S01E08

S01E08 23 Nov 74

偽札造りに愛のメロディーを

A master counterfeiter wants to give up the profession, but Ayabe sends Osamu to take him for herself.

S01E09

S01E09 30 Nov 74

ピエロに結婚行進曲を

Ayabe 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.

S01E10

S01E10 7 Des 74

金庫破りに赤いバラを

Akira 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.

S01E11

S01E11 14 Des 74

シンデレラの死に母の歌を

Osamu and Akira must decide which of two women is the real heir to an old millionaire's fortune.

S01E12

S01E12 21 Des 74

非情の街に狼の歌を

When 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.

S01E13

S01E13 28 Des 74

可愛いい女に愛の別れを

Akira 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...

S01E14

S01E14 4 Jan 75

母のない子に浜千鳥を

Osamu 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.

S01E15

S01E15 11 Jan 75

つよがり女に涙酒を

Osamu 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...

S01E16

S01E16 18 Jan 75

愛の情熱に別れの接吻を

Osamu 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.)

S01E17

S01E17 25 Jan 75

回転木馬に熱いさよならを

A 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.

S01E18

S01E18 1 Feb 75

リングサイドに花一輪を

Osamu 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.

S01E19

S01E19 8 Feb 75

街の灯に桜貝の夢を

Osamu 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.

S01E20

S01E20 15 Feb 75

兄妹に十日町小唄を

Akira 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).

S01E21

S01E21 22 Feb 75

欲ぼけおやじにネムの木を

Osamu 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.

S01E22

S01E22 1 Mar 75

くちなしの花に別れのバラードを

Osamu and Akira have to kidnap a disabled bride away from a forced marriage.

S01E23

S01E23 8 Mar 75

母の胸に悲しみの眠りを

A mother hires Akira and Osamu to find the cause of death of her daughter, who was found floating dead in a river.

S01E24

S01E24 15 Mar 75

渡辺綱に小指の思い出を

Osamu 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.

S01E25

S01E25 22 Mar 75

虫けらどもに寂しい春を

Osamu and Akira are hired by a prominent writer's lover to discover why he has seemingly "changed" into a different personality altogether.

S01E26

S01E26 29 Mar 75

祭りのあとにさすらいの日々を

Osamu 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.