Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers
The 2002 U.S. DVD Cover Released by Asia Pulp Cinema.
Directed byMasahide Kuwabara
Written bySeigo Inoue
Masahide Kuwabara
Based onZero Woman
by Tohru Shinohara
Produced byTomoko Hojo
Fueto Kikuchi
Hideo Sugimoto
Shinsuke Yamazaki
StarringKumiko Takeda
Keiji Matsuda
CinematographyShigeru Komatsubara
Music byRyuji Murayama
Production
company
Vision Sugimoto
Distributed byMAXAM
Release date
  • March 5, 1996 (1996-03-05)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers (Zero WOMAN III 警視庁０課の女, Zero Woman III: Keishichō 0-ka no onna) is a 1996 Japanese V-Cinema erotic thriller film starring Kumiko Takeda. It is the third installment in the Zero Woman series.

Plot synopsis

Our main character, Rei, is a woman without a past. She works for the Zero Department, an underground police force. She is assigned to kill a group of crime bosses. At the same time, she is haunted by visions of her deceased father and ends up seeking solace of a man, who is later to be revealed to be the hitman hired by the group of crime bosses. Rei now faces a difficult choice.

Cast

Japanese cast

  • Kumiko Takeda as Rei
  • Keiji Matsuda as Katsumura
  • Tokuma Nishimura as Takefuji
  • Marie Jinno as Sayoko
  • Charlie Yutani as Daidoji
  • Mari Nishima as Tomomi

English voice cast

Release

The film was released direct-to-video in Japan on VHS on March 5, 1996 and was later released on DVD on March 25, 2000.[1] Central Park Media licensed the film under their Asia Pulp Cinema label. It was released on VHS subtitled on February 22, 2000 and dubbed VHS on April 15, 2001.[2] CPM later released the film on DVD on July 9, 2002.[3] The English dub was produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment in Burbank, California.

Reception

TV Guide's Reed Lowie gave the film two stars.[4] He said the film goes off through a slow start, and not enough action to satisfy the viewer, although Lowie also complimented on how the cinematography was well-done (aside from a few scenes that were shot in the dark. Jim Mclennan of GirlswithGuns.org described the film as "grimly fiendish, yet effective killer's romance".[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ゼロ・ウーマン3~警視庁0課の女~ [VHS]" (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. 5 March 1996. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
  2. ↑ "Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers (VHS)". Amazon. 10 April 2001. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
  3. ↑ "Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers". Amazon. 5 April 2005. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
  4. ↑ Reed Lowie. "Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers Review". TVGuide.Com. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
  5. ↑ Jim Mclennan (2013-11-29). "Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers Review". GirlswithGuns.org. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
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