The BEST episodes directed by Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
#1 - Mokkori Killer? The Princess' Noble Aura (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 10
Ryo is hired to protect Princess Alma, an apparently bratty young but smart girl, as well as her servant, the beautiful Salina. When Ryo initially refuses to do the job, Princess Alma offers to give him his very own personal "harem" in their home nation. But Ryo is enchanted by Salina, but is unable to touch not only out of fear for losing the harem, but because Salina possesses a strange aura that prevents Ryo from touching her. Kaori discovers the truth about Alma and Salina, that they had switched identities in order to throw Ryo off. But when Kaori and the real servant plant an idea that Salina (who is really Alma) is really a man, the real Princess Alma gets upset and runs away, realizing that she has fallen in love with Ryo.
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#2 - An Aspiring Traditional Japanese Woman?! Mokkori Transcends National Borders (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 17
An airliner is hijacked and all of the women are being held captive. After assisting in dealing with the hijackers, Ryo makes off with Misa Williams, unaware that she is the daughter of the leader of the opposition in the Pamela Republic. Saeko, hired to guard Misa by General Jimetil, ruler of the Pamela Republic, gives chase along with Kaori. After intercepting Ryo and Misa at a bathhouse where Ryo has taken care of two men trying to kidnap Misa, Saeko informs them that General Jimetil has been overthrown by the opposition.
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#3 - Revenge of the beautiful woman! The sorrowful blues for Ryo (Part 1)
City Hunter - Season 4 - Episode 8
Sonia wants to avenge her father's death and she asks Umibozu to kill Ryo.
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#4 - Mokkori Everywhere! Ryo's Mind and a Pyschic Girl (Part One)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 41
Ryo's client is a young girl with a unique telepathic ability to read minds. However, Ryo is smitten by the girl's nanny, a woman with martial arts skills. The young girl, Sara, is entranced by Ryo and his abilities, despite the fact that his mind is filled with "Mokkori" most of the time. It turns out that Sara is the only daughter of the head of a large family conglomerate and that many of her relatives are after her. Sara also runs into a disturbing fact: that Kaori is secretly in love with Ryo.
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#5 - Stubborn Umibouzu: Tale of the jealous kitten
City Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 6
Miki and Umibozu get into an argument over Miki's desire to keep a stray kitten, knowing Umibozu's fear of cats. Miki walks out on Umibozu and is then kidnapped by a wealthy suitor looking for a potential mate. Umibozu and Ryo bicker on how to save Miki and set out to do so together.
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#6 - Don't Die, Falcon! Magnum with Love & Revenge (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 16
Despite suffering numerous injuries, Umibozu disappears to take on Dandy Jack, who was responsible for the death of his former partner who was Kathleen's father. Kathleen goes back to Dandy Jack's chateau, not knowing that she is being used in Dandy Jack's revenge against Umibozu. Once at Dandy Jack's chateau, Dandy Jack spots Umibozu and creates a scenario for a showdown between Umibozu and Kathleen.
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#7 - Lullaby requiem. The young nobleman who came from a distant country
City Hunter - Season 4 - Episode 13
Kaori befriends an Austrian orphan, Hans Zeigfried who is a professional killer and dying from a fatal disease. Kaori is abducted by Hans' enemies.
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#8 - Ryo Is a Gourmet! Nice PR for the Soba Noodle Beauty
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 36
Two prisoners break out of prison and end up at a Soba Noodle Shop where Ryo is eating Soba Noodles that are of poor quality. The proprietor, a young woman, accepts a request from one of the prisoners to train her to make proper Soba noodles while Ryo takes care of a businessman using unscrupulous ways to buy the restaurant from the young woman.
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#9 - Kaori's in Danger! Love Means Saying Goodbye (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 4
Kaori seeks hiding from the Silver Fox with Umibozu. She then catches Ryo babbling to Saeko babbling about how Kaori is just crazy about him and how he does not really care about her and that Kaori is unfit to be Ryo's partner (even though Ryo really cares for Kaori). With that revelation, she seeks training in creating boobytraps from Umibozu and seeks to take matters in her own hands by challenging the Silver Fox herself.
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#10 - Ryo, Please be Deceived: Present to a Girl from Saeko
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 30
When a car bomb gravely injures a young girl, Saeko is furious and vows to bring down the people responsible. In order to do so, she must secretly request Ryo's help to bring down a robbery gang. The trail leads to a suave womanizer and Kaori is kidnapped when she tries to go after robbers who rob her of her remaining life savings.
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#11 - Combination of puzzlement & recovery! Memories are a distant light
City Hunter - Season 4 - Episode 3
Ryo comes across a stuntwoman named Yuki who is trying to get her memory back by performing dangerous stunts. She believes Yuki is being hypnotised by someone.
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#12 - A wedding dress for Christmas (Part 2)
City Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 11
Tsubaki and Kazuhiko attempt to flee their country to evade the wrath of their parents but are attacked by a helicopter in the process. However, they are saved by Ryo who manages to take down the helicopter in one shot. Meanwhile, Ryo investigates the rivalry between the Yamaoka and Umino families and comes across some startling information. He also uncovers evidence that a third party is also trying to break up the couple by marking them for death.
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#13 - Three Sisters Are Calling! Ryo's Skiing Heaven
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 45
Ryo is requested to take care of three sisters at a ski resort.
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#14 - Even Kaori's Pissed: Ryo and a Young Lady, Pinch Hitter Marriage Story
City Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 3
While Ryo has his gun taken away from creditors for failing to pay his rent, he is hired by a beautiful woman who is the owner of her own large company to appear on TV with her. It turns out that this TV show talks about newlyweds as the woman waxes on about her and Ryo's supposed "Love Life". She makes this admission in order to detract potential suitors more interested in her money rather than herself. Later on, it is revealed that several of her potential suitors had been involved in unfortunate accidents and Ryo suspects a powerful executive attempting to gain control of her company through marriage.
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#15 - Scary! Shinjuku Ghost Story!! The Wandering Soul of a Beautiful Woman (Part 1)
City Hunter - Season 4 - Episode 5
Ryo stumbles upon a pretty ghost named Ami Asaka who tells him that she was murdered by a serial killer. She hires him to protect her younger sister.
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#16 - Princess From The Moon! Amnesia Give Ryo Headaches
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 39
Ryo runs into a woman who claims she has amnesia and gets notoriously drunk after one sip. Ryo deduces that the girl is not actually suffering from memory loss and is attempting to run away from an overwhelming fact.
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#17 - Targeted Witness! A Dangerous Beauty Dressed Up Like a Man (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 26
After a Shooting Range accident, Ryo finds out that Keiichi and Keiko are in fact the same person. But Ryo decides to hide this fact from Kaori. When Ryo makes advances towards Keiko while she is in his male costume, Kaori is furious thinking that Ryo would rather be attracted to a man rather than her. Kaori is then kidnapped by the man attempting to kill Keiko and Ryo and Keiko must rescue her.
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#18 - The Legend of Umibozu, Pure-Hearted Mysterious Benefactor (Part Two)
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 28
Umibozu reveals that the man after Maki is Snake, a former comrade who betrayed Umibozu and her father. The final showdown between Umibozu and Snake takes place in a theater where Maki is performing in her concert. Ryo reveals to Maki who her "Daddy Longlegs" really is.
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#19 - Buzz Buzz Buzz Go the Killer Bees!! A Bride Fallen from the Sky
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 23
A bride literally falls into Ryo's lap and along with it, some goons hired by the jilted groom. While trying to sneak up on her during the middle of the night, Ryo gets stung by an experimental, but deadly bee. The bride does have the antidote, but as Kaori finds out, it has "terrible" side effects, most notably showing the feminine side of City Hunter.
#20 - A Beach to Remember: An Audition Full of Danger
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 19
Ryo is asked to investigate threats made to women attending an audition for a film featuring a handsome actor. One of these ladies attending this audition is hoping to reunite with her long-lost father, the director of the movie.
#21 - Dangerous Tutor? Heartful Home Cooking for a High School Girl
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 10
Ryo is tricked into doing bodyguard work for the daughter of a Yakuza Boss being stalked by a biker team. Ryo realizes that the daughter is the leader of a female gang at her school, and finds there is much more than what the Yakuza boss is requesting.
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#22 - Ryo's a Lecherous Lecturer at a Women's University? Protect the Lovely Lady
City Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 15
Ryo is requested to protect the daughter of a dead tycoon who claims that Ryo had saved her from kidnappers once before. As Ryo tries to find out who is trying to kill her, her stepmother comes up as a very likely suspect, but is being controlled by someone else.
#23 - Aim for the Gold Medal!! Intimate Training for the Shooting Beauty
City Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 21
Ryo decides to take on Saeko's request to assist a not-so-beautiful female police officer in training for an Olympic event. Ryo realizes the young officer is being targeted by a man with a grudge, while deciding to take the officer to get a makeover to unlock her "true beauty".