Wounded Angels (1974)

Oct 5, 1974

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...

Oct 12, 1974

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!

Oct 19, 1974

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.

Oct 26, 1974

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

Nov 2, 1974

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

Nov 9, 1974

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...

Nov 16, 1974

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

Nov 23, 1974

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

Nov 30, 1974

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.

Dec 7, 1974

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.

Dec 14, 1974

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

Dec 21, 1974

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.

Dec 28, 1974

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...

Jan 4, 1975

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.

Jan 11, 1975

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...

Jan 18, 1975

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.)

Jan 25, 1975

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.

Feb 1, 1975

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.

Feb 8, 1975

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.

Feb 15, 1975

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).

Feb 22, 1975

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.

Mar 1, 1975

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

Mar 8, 1975

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

Mar 15, 1975

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.

Mar 22, 1975

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

Mar 29, 1975

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.