SAKAMOTO Yugo has taken the world by storm with his Baby Assassins action comedies and, for OAFF, he brings a new instalment of another painful entertainment series, one dedicated to Kunioka Masayuki, the most powerful freelance hitman in Kyoto.
In this adventure, Kunioka saves the life of Manaka Takuya, a part-time freelance assassin who botches a big gun procurement assignment. Due to this incident, Manaka is suspended from the hitman association and his father, the former number one ranked hitman in Kyoto, drags him back to the family home to do chores. When Kunioka checks up on his former brother-in-arms, he finds Manaka has become domesticated but the reappearance of unioka reawakens Manaka’s fighting spirit and the young man challenges his father to a duel as part of his return to walking the path of an assassin. In order to defeat his father, however, Manaka will have to embark on intense training… [Jason MAHER]