# Sure Death (1984)

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**Original title**: *必殺! THE HISSATSU*
**Runtime**: 123 min
**Genres**: Drama, Crime, Action
**Directed by**: Masahisa Sadanaga
**Written by**: Tatsuo Nogami, Takeshi Yoshida
**Starring**: Makoto Fujita, Kunihiko Mitamura, Izumi Ayukawa, Kin Sugai, Mari Shiraki, Ippei Hikaru

> *Assassins vs assassins! New samurai action! The inner struggle of underground killers!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You’re a traveling merchant in 18th-century Edo, selling silk and secrets. Then corpses of fellow killers pile up in the streets. The shogunate’s shadow detective begins asking questions. Sadanaga’s static camera keeps you close to faces that refuse to reveal.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, raw

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