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Crying Freeman
Crying Freeman

Crying Freeman

★ 7.4•1988•1 Seasons•ANIME
Action & AdventureAnimationDrama

Yo Hinomura was an ordinary Japanese potter when a run-in with a Chinese mafia changed his life forever. Now an assassin for the 108 Dragons, Yo is the perfect killing machine. As a sign for remorse over his victims, he sheds tears after eliminating his targets. Because of this, he is infamously known by the Dragons and every crime syndicate in the world as the "Crying Freeman."

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Top Cast

Toshio Furukawa

Toshio Furukawa

Yo Hinomura / Lóng Tài-Yáng / Freeman (voice)

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Chiharu Kataishi

Emu Hino / Hǔ Qinglán (voice)

Episodes

Portrait of a Killer

1. Portrait of a Killer

52m

Emu Hino, a lonely and beautiful Japanese artist witnesses a Chinese man killing three men, then sees his eyes well up with tears. He tells her the story of how the 108 Dragons turned him into the assassin, Crying Freeman.

Aired: 11/25/1988
Shades of Death: Fusei Kakurei (1)

2. Shades of Death: Fusei Kakurei (1)

52m

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Yō and Emu marry in a Chinese wedding ceremony and are given the new names Long Tai Yang and Hu Qing Lan. Bai Ya Shan demands leadership of the 108 Dragons.

Aired: 9/22/1989
Shades of Death: Eternal Love (2)

3. Shades of Death: Eternal Love (2)

52m

Emu is kidnapped by 108 Dragon operatives, tortured and threatened with rape. Freeman's plane gets hijacked by Askari agents.

Aired: 6/22/1990
A Taste of Revenge: Oshu Tohgoku

4. A Taste of Revenge: Oshu Tohgoku

52m

Dark Eyes is confronted by the massive and powerful Oshu Tohgoku who rapes her and dumps her in the sea. Tohgoku challenges Freeman to a public wrestling match.

Aired: 10/25/1991
Abduction in Chinatown: Battlefield of Kishibojin

5. Abduction in Chinatown: Battlefield of Kishibojin

52m

In Los Angeles Chinatown, Mr Wong asks Freeman for help to retrieve his kidnapped daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter after already paying the ransom to the Kidnapper Organisation (K.O.).

Aired: 11/25/1992
The Russian Connection: The Light in the Darkness

6. The Russian Connection: The Light in the Darkness

52m

Russian mafia boss Nicholaiev and Japanese yakuza Tsunaike plan to cut out the 108 Dragons trade and Nicholaiev makes an offer to Tanya to help him. Meanwhile Freeman sees a woman pass in a car he remembers from his past.

Aired: 2/25/1994