| If you have not seen "Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs", what are you waiting for?! ORDER IT NOW!!!
Forget what you know of the Zero Woman films, okay? Miki Sugimoto is the real deal. She plays a hard nose female cop (super cool!) who gets sent to jail for being...a little too enthusiastic about her job. I.E. she shoots a Dutch diplomat who has been raping women in the crotch. She gets offered a chance at redemption by a cop named Nagumo, played to the hilt by Tetsuro Tamba, she has to infiltrate a gang of kidnappers who have snatched the daughter of the next Prime Minister of Japan.
She joins the gang by saving their boss from being killed by the cops but the other members don't trust her and precede torture her, while she is naked and handcuff to a pole, to find out if she is a plant by the cops but our lady does not crack.
When the baddies leave she manages to escape her bonds with a cleverly concealed hairpin lock pick(?) and kill the female member of the gang, named the Madame Sesum played by Yôko Mihara, who tries to seduce her.
She convinces the rest of the gang that Sesum was going to betray them that they should move the girl, at which point the movie really starts to take off.
This is the ultimate in "Pinky Violence" films.
The film does have a lot of serious violence and scenes of torture and rape but if this does not bother you in a film, buckle up, because you are in for one wild ride. |