City Hunter

- Season 1

(1987)

The first episode that showcases the sexual antics and skills of City Hunter, Ryo Saeba takes a case from a young woman after her schoolgirl sister is shot in broad daylight by a disturbed motorist. Realizing that this isn't the first time this incident has occurred, Ryo sets about the young girl's request to find the killer and turn him in to the police. But being the real cool sweeper that he is, Ryo senses that something in the young girl's eyes tells him that she has other plans in store for the murderer after he's captured...

Arms dealers are after a scientist's beautiful daughter who both worked together to develop a deadly bacteria.

A boxer is shot in a park by a rival, and his grief-stricken widow, who contacts Ryo, uses a life insurance policy for her fee.

Beautiful girls disappear from shops. One day this fate befalls Kaori Makimura, sister of Ryo's partner Hideyuki Makimura.

On Kaori's birthday, a drug cartel sends a hitman, the General, to assassinate Hideyuki Makimura.

A film producer hires Ryo to protect a lovelorn actress from the deadly Umibozu, a rival city hunter.

A Japanese minister's stooge asks Ryo to fake his death so he can see his daughter.

Inspector Saeko Nogami asks Ryo to help steal an artifact with secret documents.

A genius croupier wants to leave her syndicate.

A yakuza boss tricks Ryo into protecting his daughter, herself a highschool gang leader.

Ryo is hired by a 17 year old high school girl to help her steal a rare and mysterious black tulip.

Ryo stumbles upon a job to protect a young boy and his sensei fleeing from a corrupt military-run country.

Ryo must protect a famous young pop star from an obsessive fan.

Ryo teams up with Saeko to investigate a woman kidnapping ring, but is in for a shock when he sees how stunning the female leader is.

Yuko is the young daughter of the rich Kataoka family and her father has just passed away, leaving her the family riches. There is now rumors of a "hit" on Yuko from a close member of her family but she refuses to be near any man for protection for she was nearly kidnapped when she was a little girl by two men. Luckily she was saved by a "knight" in shining armor that happens to look a lot like Ryo. Ryo is therefore hired to act as her teacher and protect her for he resembles the one and only man Yuko will trust.

Chiemi is an old friend of Kaori who is in desperate need of help. On her first flight as a stewardess, Chiemi unknowingly smuggles in what appears to be gold watches. Men start coming after the smuggled items and she turns to Ryo and Kaori for help. In return, Ryo gets a date with Chiemi but he's in for a surprise when he finds out he's not the only one chasing after this beautiful lady.

Ryo is hired by a beautiful swim wear model who aspires to create her own line of swim wear clothing. However, her old fashion manager keeps stealing her creations and claims them as his own. Ryo and Kaori help her get back into the fashion business and get a little revenge against her old manager while doing it.

A pretty young prophet is being targeted by an old client whom wishes to silence her for knowing secrets of his shady past. Ryo is hired by this modern day 21st century prophet because she believes Ryo is an emissary sent from god to protect her. What she dosn't forsee is that Ryo will change how she views life from that moment on.

Ryo and Kaori are tasked with bodyguarding a highly publicized audition for the lead female role in a movie. There had been anonymous threats against this audition and Ryo and Kaori are surprised to learn just who is behind these threats. Meanwhile Etsuko, one of the 20 female actresses, has a compelling love story of her own that brings her to the audition.

Ryo and Kaori must take a meike descendant from the Kurokuma Valley and show her the capitol city. However, there are people after her and Ryo and Kaori get tangled in a plot to acquire the land deeds of the Kurokuma Valley.

Ryo is tricked into helping Saeko protect an old mentor of hers. She owes this Mr. Smith for helping her out with a police case years ago, and is now in debt to pay him back. Mr. Smith is now a rich American visiting Japan for a few days and is targeted by numerous assassins. Ryo promises Saeko to protect him but he soon finds out the real story behind the assassins and their target.

While Ryo tags along Kaori to a lingerie fashion show, Ryo accidentally saves the life of one of the models named Arisa. Arisa seduces Ryo into becoming her new bodyguard/boyfriend to protect her from an onslaught of men that want to kidnap her. Ryo and Kaori eventually find out the truth about the love Arisa once had that's causing all this trouble for her and they eventually learn the truth that she isn't as ditsy as Ryo first thought when meeting her.

Ryo inadvertently catches a bouquet at a wedding and with this luck, a beautiful bridesmaid falls into his lap while stopped at a red light. Ryo and Kaori quickly find out that there are deadly men after Kazue and luckily for her, she fell into the lap of the City Hunter. While Ryo and Kaori help her with her problems, they ultimately find out that she's a scientist trying to stop a deadly secret project.

Ryo must go undercover as a patient in a hospital to protect a nurse whom is unknowingly targeted for a hit. This clumsy yet polite and very innocent nurse has a heart that overwhelms the patients that she takes care of, causing this unfortunate and dangerous situation. Luckily for this nurse though, Kaori broke the famous City Hunters' leg as an excuse to get him into the hospital to protect her!

Ryo finally meets his match when a sexy and mysterious blonde beauty known as Angel Heart enters his life. She seems to be the only woman to ever match Ryo's cunning and intelligence in terms of being a sweeper and even with that, she soon realizes that in the end, everyone ends up needing Ryo's help.

An over-protected daughter finds a job in a fast food. Ryo is hired to stop any suspicious types who approach her.

Umibozu secretly took care of a soldier's daughter, a musician named Maki. When she wants to meet her benefactor, he asks Ryo to impersonate him.

A traitor from Umibouzu's squad, Snake, wants to take revenge on him by killing Maki.

An artist of children books is harassed by her former editor.

An aunt wants to kill her nephew because she blames him for the disappearance of her husband, the uncle. Meanwhile the nephew falls for Kaori.

A rich girl is in love with a biker gang member. The both contact Ryo for different purposes.

Saeko asks Ryo to protect her from a top-class assassin.

Umibozu falls in love with a pianist who uncovered a corruption scandal.

A mother drops her child at Ryo's to ward off the grandfather dealing with the loss of his son.

Ryou helps a famous newscaster who is investigating a scandal involving a politician and yakuza.

A suicidal girl is targeted. What does her stepfather have to do with it?

Ryo acquires the daughter of a Hanafubuki boss as a disciple.

The trouble maker from the Hanafubuki got expelled and now plots revenge against Ryo.

Saeko loses a princess. Meanwhile, Ryo takes care of a very wealthy, generous and amnesiac foreigner.

An insurance investigator partners with Ryo to recover The Smile of Cleopatra, an enormous diamond that had been stolen, before the policy kicks in.

Saeko's sister Reika starts a private investigation business, but her office is ravaged by a mafia group.

Reika is revealed to have been extorting money from the mafia group for her dead partner's widow.

An orphaned poetess is harassed.

Ryo goes to a beautiful hairdresser, whose siblings discover stolen money in an abandoned building.

Ryo must protects three daughters in a chalet.

Mariko, a friend of Mariko's enjoys picking pockets. Ryo tries to discourage her and challenges her.

A daughter needs to play a pool match, with her family's club at stake. Ryo ensures fair play.

A thief is after some diamonds that ended up in a widow's collection.

A nun hires Ryo to find her rosary.

Remnants of the syndicate that killed Hideyuki Makimura are after Ryo, Kaori, Saeko and Umibouzu.

Kaori gets kidnapped, leading to a showdown between Ryo and three killers on the syndicate's freighter.