The BEST episodes directed by Mitsuko Kase
#1 - Love Can be Superior to Money? Mokkori vs a Saving Girl
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 14
Ryo meets Shoko, a young girl who believes money is everything and is better than love. While Ryo tries to turn Shoko's attitude around, he has to contend with three men attempting to court her on behalf of a friendly Yakuza group.
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#2 - Wounded Innocence! A Bullet and an Angel's Prayer
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 29
A girl named Maiko refuses to have a life-saving operation unless she sees the hero of her dreams, an unknown man by the name of Tetsu. In fact, Tetsu is trying to join a Yakuza group, and Ryo must save him from a potentially dangerous fate.
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#3 - Goodbye, Hard-Boiled City (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 49
Kaori discovers Ryo in bed with another woman and angrily leaves him as a result. Ryo, with no recollection of the events the night before, decides to strike it up with this woman. What he does not realize that the woman, Rumi, is the daughter of a powerful Japanese politician. In his anger, the politician hires Umibozu to take out the City Hunter and retrieve Rumi. But Ryo realizes that some men are also after Rumi, led by a mysterious woman named Sarah.
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#4 - Reunion After Twenty Years! Please Look After My Sister, Mr. Saeba (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 53
Sayuri takes Kaori shopping and gives her a complete makeover. As they are proceeding back to the apartment, they are kidnapped by unknown strangers. Ryo is able to determine that the men responsible are members of the Unryu-Kai, of whom Ryo once dealt with. Once the women are freed, only one question remains, will Sayuri tell Kaori the truth about her existence?
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#5 - Umi, What a Sexy Guy! Beautiful Sweeper Miki Gets Close (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 40
Ryo continues to evade Miki's attacks as Kaori requests Umibozu to stop the bet and marry Miki. Umibozu responds with a statement that makes Kaori believe that Ryo has a mistress (when in actuality, he is talking about Ryo and Kaori themselves). Angered by this, Kaori seeks to have Miki "kidnap" her so to lead Ryo to a trap.
#6 - Mokkori Contract! The Strange Journey of Ryo & a Bad Girl (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 34
It is revealed that a branch of the Hong Kong mafia is interested in the plates. Ryo and Sakura is able to bust out of the mafia compound and Umibozu also walks out after realizing the men who hired him cannot be trusted. When the woman who originally hired City hunter is kidnapped, Sakura takes matters into her own hands and tries to bargain the counterfeit plates for the life of her brother and future sister-in-law, despite Sakura's hatred of her.
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#7 - Nineteen Year-Old Widow! Lover in the Heart of a Beautiful Sketch Artist (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 45
During a visit to Hideyuki's grave, Ryo comes across a woman visiting a grave being accosted by two men. It turns out that the woman, Ayako, was visiting the grave of her late husband, a Yakuza boss. The two men are determined to be from a rival Yakuza group. Ryo notices deep emotional wounds in Ayako as he notices her having trouble resuming her passion of painting.
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#8 - Go For It Umibozu!! One Hard Boiled First Love Concerto
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 33
Umibozu is injured while protecting a female pianist with whom he has affection for. He enlists the help of Ryo to help protect the girl from a corrupt politician involved in a bribery scandal and who is trying to report the story in honour of her dead fiance.
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#9 - Utako's Cookie Anniversary: Moles on Her Chest and a Love Poem
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 43
Ryo is requested to protect a famous poet from an increasing number of stalkers following her. When Ryo finds out that the men following her are not ordinary stalkers, he also finds out that his client is also not an ordinary girl.
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#10 - Targeted Witness! A Dangerous Beauty Dressed Up Like a Man (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 25
Ryo is requested to guard Keiichi Kashiwagi, a witness in an important court case. Ryo resists until he is given a proposal to meet Keiichi's twin sister Keiko, to which Ryo gleefully accepts. But Keiichi is in fact Keiko, disguising herself as a man in order to thwart Ryo's advances.
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#11 - Speeding Violation of Love! Ryo and the Beautiful Motorcycle Cop
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 9
Ryo and Saeko's date is interrupted by the discovery of a known fraud, and the subsequent traffic stop by a beautiful traffic cop. Meanwhile, Kaori finds that she was ripped off into buying a fake designer fur coat. The traffic cop then decides to help Ryo find the fraudster, whom is also the suspect Saeko is after.
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#12 - Kaori Gets Amnesia! Goodbye, My Dear Partner
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 20
When two brothers make an attempt on Ryo's Life, Kaori pushes Ryo out of the way only to suffer a head injury and amnesia as a result. Ryo realizes that he himself may be responsible for Kaori's predicament, so he makes arrangements for her to start a new life outside the underworld.
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#13 - A 500 Yen Job?! A Cute Little Girl Wins Ryo's Heart
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 29
A young girl manages to convince Ryo to help her idol, a budding children's author, from corporate bullies representing a publishing firm. The price: 500 Yen.
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#14 - Shinjuku Honor All The Way! The Kimono Beauty Wants To Be My Student (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 38
Cast away from the Hanafubuki Gumi, Kitoo and the other hoodlums plot to kill Kikunosuke's father and their former leader. Meanwhile, Kikunosuke, on orders from her father, boards with Ryo to learn more about dignity and honor. Kaori goes to Kikunosuke's father with a request to allow her daughter to live a normal life.
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#15 - Her Ladyship Leaves the Mountain: One Long Day for Ryo
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 20
Ryo is hired to defend a jungle princess from members of her own tribe intent in breaking their isolation from the modern world.
#16 - A Rosy Hospital Stay? Targeted Angel in White
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 24
In order to find out who is targeting a nurse who is due to be the recipient of a large inheritance, Ryo breaks his foot and ends up in the same hospital the nurse is staying. While Ryo must not tell the nurse that she is being targeted, he also finds out she does not have enough experience being a nurse.
#17 - The Bullseye Is a Beautiful Woman?! Hands Off the Female Detective
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 8
A Police detective named Saeko Nogami hires Ryo to obtain a crown containing a microchip which has stolen top secret plans inside. While Ryo agrees to do his job, he awaits his ""payment"" which leaves Kaori confused as to how this payment would be applied.
#18 - Kids Have All the Luck! Beautiful Woman from a Dangerous Land
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 12
Ryo must protect a woman and a young boy from another country from being abducted by foreign agents. Kaori soon discovers that the young boy's actions and demeanor are exactly as Ryo's.
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#19 - A Mischievous Mokkori Detective?! A Beautiful Writer's Mystery Game
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 5
While doing research for a hardcore mystery novel, the publishing company sends a bodyguard to guard Azusa while she completes her book. Her adventures include visiting friendly Yakuza, an interview with Umibozu, and a plot to kill the friendly Yakuza boss. What she does not realize is that the City Hunter is the bodyguard hired to protect her.
#20 - The Target is Ryo! The Camerawoman Loves Danger (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 22
Ryo meets Yoko Fuyuno, a reporter intent in writing a story about the exploits of the City Hunter. Ryo realizes that if Yoko writes her story, his cover would be blown, so he tries many ways to convince her to not write the story, starting from the fact that he is Ryoji, Ryo's fictional younger brother. A request from Saeko to bust a drug transportation route complicates matters so Ryo goes through extreme measures to bust the route while not attracting suspicion from Yoko.
#21 - One Frisky Flight Attendant: The Tale of Instructor Ryo
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 16
An old friend of Kaori's is being stalked by strange characters who are after strange looking watches that were slipped into her bag. Despite Kaori's efforts to keep her away from Ryo, Kaori is kidnapped by the men and Ryo and her friend must rescue her.
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#22 - Into Battle, Albion
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 3
Kou returns to the ruins of the Torrington Base. He apologizes to Synapse for taking the GPO1. Kou says the GPO1 is a wonderful and excellent suit. On the bridge, Synapse speaks to General John Kowen from Jaburo. General Kowen orders Synapse to launch the Albion and as soon as possible locate the GPO2A and prevent usage of the nuclear warhead
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#23 - Sister in Doubt: Mokkori is Her Guide to Love ?
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 49
Ryo runs into a young beautiful nun who has lost her cross after a night in the town.
#24 - Gundamjack
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 1
On January 1, 0080, the battle between Zeon and the Earth Federation rages on. Fleet Commander Delaz has been informed that Gihren Zabi has been killed by his sister. Three years later, Federal Forces Kou Uraki and Chuck Keith are engaged in training exercises near Australia's Torrington Base. Their target is a new experimental Powered GM piloted by Lt. Dick Allen.
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#25 - Attack and Retreat on the Burning Sand
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 4
The Albion flies over the Savannah of Eastern Africa as the seach continues for Gato and the GPO2A. All of the crew is on edge, and things only get worse when a battle alert is sounded. It turns out to not be an enemy attack, but instead is a fight in the hangar between Monsha and Mora. Mora does not like that Monsha is hitting on all her girls and grabbing their asses. Adel says he will make sure Monsha grabs her ass too, and Mora hits him
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#26 - Endless Pursuit
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 2
Gatu attacks Kou and engages him in a close fight. Kou's experience makes him no match for Gato, he is unable to fight properly and gets knocked quite a bit. Gato tells Kou that he is no match for him. What will happen next?
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#27 - Gundam, to the Sea of Stars
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - Season 1 - Episode 5
The Albion leaves Earth's orbit and heads through the shoal zone of wrecked colonies on their way to the lunar base of Anaheim Electronics. Nina makes romantic advances on Kou, but he's so dense and focused on the GPO1 that he doesn't notice. Nina tries to explain to him that the GPO1 isn't modified for space and is useless until it is upgraded to Full Vernian
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Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 3
Having witnessed Hazama's skills first-hand, Okamato visits his apartment bent on uncovering his secret. All she finds are evidence of Hazama's stringent surgical practice regimen using fish, pig feet and the like as subjects. Suddenly, they hear a groan next door…
Watch Now:Amazon#29 - In Vietnam Part 2
Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 5
Hazama's group is captured by the Vietcong. They negotiate with the leader to let them treat an injured member. After days go by, their interpreter is dragged off.
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Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 1
It was the year 1968 when student protests at Tokyo University heralded an era of youth activism. A major accident costs a boy an arm and a leg--while even the professor of the surgery concedes defeat, Hazama promises the boy's parents that he will rejoin the boy's limbs... if the parents cough up five million. Desperate for help, they agree…
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Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 2
Abruptly abducted in the dead of night, a loan shark offers Hazama and other captives the option of wiping their debt clean, at a cost--they must offer their heart to a certain man of means. However, the black market doctor goes AWOL and the heart transplant is no go…
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Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 10
Yuki's path to becoming a surgeon begins again!
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Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 4
Hazama goes to Vietnam in pursuit of Yabu.. Hazama manages to identify Yabu's last known location, but a sudden attack forces him to make a life-or-death decision...
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Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 9
A renowned surgeon comes to Hazama and Maiko's university as a lecturer. Hazama recognizes him and requests to assist with Hyakki's research.
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Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 6
Right after Steve is saved, he goes missing. Hazama believes that Steve is still convinced he is captured. Hazama sets off to find and convince him.
Watch Now:Amazon#36 - Painless Revolution Part 2
Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 8
A patient has analgesia, an inability to feel pain. While Hazama and Maiko investigate the cause they have a chance encounter with Yabu. Yabu's patient has something in common with Hazama's -- they were in same platoon. Hazama is certain the cause of their issues is related.
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Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 7
Okamato and Hazama travel to America to observe a surgery by the much-renowned Dr. Risenberg. They run into a civil rights activist and acquaintance of Okamato, and her friend. However they're soon attacked.
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Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 11
Hyakki's has changed his appearance, which shocks Hazama. He attempts to persuade Hyakki to turn himself in, but Hyakki refuses to forego his pursuit of vengeance...
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Young Black Jack - Season 1 - Episode 12
Hazama meets and treats the injury of a student activist named Eri. Following this, Eri and Hazama develop a friendship. Eri sends Hazama a postcard from Gunma, where the government is raiding.
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