Deadly Professional 2023

Jan 8, 2023

1h 55m

★ 0.0

Overview

An epidemic is spreading through the towns of Edo – it spreads via people, and if you get the fever, your face will turn red like a demon, and then you will die. There is no cure in sight, and people’s anxiety is increasing.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Action

Production Companies

TV Asahi

Asahi Broadcasting Corporation

Shochiku

Deadly Professional 2023 Trailers

Cast

Shogoro Watanabe

Noriyuki Higashiyama

Ryoji no Kyojia

Masahiro Matsuoka

Okiku no Hanagoten

Emi Wakui

Jinpachiro no Kawaraya

Ken'ichi Endô

Fuku Watanabe

Noriko Nakagoshi

Ryu

Yuri Chinen

Rintaro Masumura

Katsuhisa Namase

Ten Ayanokoji

Midoriko Kimura

Hikozaemon Suminoe

Satoru Matsuo

DJ Koo

Ozuno Nakamura

Ayumi Tanida

Tomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving five years plans to break into the Edo Castle gold storehouse to avenge the death of his father, who died a violent death at a gold mine on Sado Island. With the help of Hanji, a playboy who took care of him in prison, as his partner, Tomizo decides on the night of fireworks to be held in Edo Castle as the day to carry out his plan. Kanpei, a wise man, is suspicious of the plan.

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