Season 1
26 episodes · Oct 5, 1974
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- S1E1
宝石泥棒に子守唄を
Oct 5, 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...
- S1E2
悪女にトラック一杯の幸せを
Oct 12, 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!
- S1E3
ヌードダンサーに愛の炎を
Oct 19, 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.
- S1E4
港町に男涙のブルースを
Oct 26, 1974Osamu is sent to find a rival gang's heroin shipping lane and goes to a remote port town.
- S1E5
殺人者に怒りの雷光を
Nov 2, 1974Someone is murdering Ayabe's gang members in brutal and unusual ways, and as their numbers dwindle, they begin to get crazy...
- S1E6
草原に黒い十字架を
Nov 9, 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...
- S1E7
自動車泥棒にラブソングを
Nov 16, 1974Akira and Osamu are sent to break up a car-thieving ring, but end up in hot water.
- S1E8
偽札造りに愛のメロディーを
Nov 23, 1974A master counterfeiter wants to give up the profession, but Ayabe sends Osamu to take him for herself.
- S1E9
ピエロに結婚行進曲を
Nov 30, 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.
- S1E10
金庫破りに赤いバラを
Dec 7, 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.
- S1E11
シンデレラの死に母の歌を
Dec 14, 1974Osamu and Akira must decide which of two women is the real heir to an old millionaire's fortune.
- S1E12
非情の街に狼の歌を
Dec 21, 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.
- S1E13
可愛いい女に愛の別れを
Dec 28, 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...
- S1E14
母のない子に浜千鳥を
Jan 4, 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.
- S1E15
つよがり女に涙酒を
Jan 11, 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...
- S1E16
愛の情熱に別れの接吻を
Jan 18, 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.)
- S1E17
回転木馬に熱いさよならを
Jan 25, 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.
- S1E18
リングサイドに花一輪を
Feb 1, 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.
- S1E19
街の灯に桜貝の夢を
Feb 8, 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.
- S1E20
兄妹に十日町小唄を
Feb 15, 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).
- S1E21
欲ぼけおやじにネムの木を
Feb 22, 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.
- S1E22
くちなしの花に別れのバラードを
Mar 1, 1975Osamu and Akira have to kidnap a disabled bride away from a forced marriage.
- S1E23
母の胸に悲しみの眠りを
Mar 8, 1975A mother hires Akira and Osamu to find the cause of death of her daughter, who was found floating dead in a river.
- S1E24
渡辺綱に小指の思い出を
Mar 15, 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.
- S1E25
虫けらどもに寂しい春を
Mar 22, 1975Osamu and Akira are hired by a prominent writer's lover to discover why he has seemingly "changed" into a different personality altogether.
- S1E26
祭りのあとにさすらいの日々を
Mar 29, 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.