Episode
City Hunter: Goodbye Hard-Boiled City (Part 1)
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- City Hunter
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 49
- Air date
- 1989-03-31
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Goodbye Hard-Boiled City (Part 1) is Episode 49 in City Hunter 2 of City Hunter. It aired on 1989-03-31. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 48: Wanting to fall in love like a Dream: The Strategy of a 12 year old Angel (Part 2)
Kozue begins to enjoy life with Ryo and decides to try to set him up with her older sister. Meanwhile, Ryo finds out that Kozue was wounded by an unknown man who had killed another over a deal gone bad, and the bullet stuck against her spine is the cause of her paralysis. The arrival of Detectives Iwadate and Saeko also begins to complicate matters. With Kozue scheduled to undergo an operation which may allow her to walk again, Ryo realizes that Kozue may be in greater danger than initially thought.
Episode 50: Farewell, hard-boiled city (Part 2)
After Ryo, Saeko, and Umibozu are able to thwart an ambush set up by Sarah, her group, the Black Army, makes a ransom demand to the Japanese government with the threat of blowing up a nuclear bomb in the heart of Shinjuku. With the information on their hideout from Rumi, Ryo decides to take the Black army on. But when he realizes the truth of Sarah's identity, he finds that he is unable to shoot her.
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