Wounded Man

傷追い人

Aired: 1986 - 1988

A hard-boiled OVA series adapted from the gekiga by Ryoichi Ikegami and Kazuo Koike. Once a rising pro-wrestling star, Jiro Shikishima is framed and disgraced, then sets out across South America and Africa on a sprawling odyssey of revenge. Combining sexual frankness, political conspiracy and bruising martial action, it was a pioneering adult-oriented OVA and a forerunner of Japan's later V-cinema scene, channeling the source manga's dirty, dense atmosphere.