Baian Fujieda the Assassin (2006)

Release Date: 2006-11-04
Runtime: 1h 37min
Production Company: Fuji Television Network
Production Country: Japan
Director: Toru Hayashi
Writer: Megumi Tamura

An adaptation of the Shotaro Ikenami novels, set in the historical Edo period, and centered on Fujieda Bayan, a medicine man and doctor by day, but ruthless killer for hire by night. His tools of the trade are the same in either job: acupuncture needles that leave no trace.