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Two lovable idiot "private detectives" (or at least, that's their cover story —more like gangsters) try to make ends meet on the mean streets of Tokyo.
Akira Inui
Osamu Kogure
Tatsumi
Ayabe Takako
Kyoko Asakawa
October 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...
October 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!
October 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.
October 26, 1974
Osamu is sent to find a rival gang's heroin shipping lane and goes to a remote port town.
November 2, 1974
Someone is murdering Ayabe's gang members in brutal and unusual ways, and as their numbers dwindle, they begin to get crazy...
November 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...
November 16, 1974
Akira and Osamu are sent to break up a car-thieving ring, but end up in hot water.
November 23, 1974
A master counterfeiter wants to give up the profession, but Ayabe sends Osamu to take him for herself.
November 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.
December 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.
December 14, 1974
Osamu and Akira must decide which of two women is the real heir to an old millionaire's fortune.
December 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.
December 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...
January 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.
January 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...
January 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.)
January 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.
February 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.
February 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.
February 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).
February 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.
March 1, 1975
Osamu and Akira have to kidnap a disabled bride away from a forced marriage.
March 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.
March 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.
March 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.
March 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.
