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Zero Woman: The Hunted

Zero Woman: The Hunted

Asia Pulp Cinema (1997)
AVI OR DVD
Action | Adventure
Japan | English Dubbed | Color | 01:21

After successfully pulling off a daring hit on a man surrounded by bodyguards, Rei (Mikiyo Ohno) becomes the target of a (rather clumsy, I would say) assassin. While dealing with him, she also meets a female masseuse, with whom she seems to be linked by a traumatic incident in the past, and a genial male waiter who is flirting with her.

A definite step up from the dismal previous entry ("The Accused"), "Zero Woman 5: The Hunted", has, in my opinion, the most convincing as an assassin actress to play Rei so far. Mikiyo Ohno (who, by the way, looks much more beautiful in the film than she does on the DVD cover) has the right cold, blank stare when she's executing someone, and I liked how she showed Rei's comfort and knowledgeability about different types of guns. However, the action scenes aren't particularly well-done, the pacing is once again narcotizing at times, and the script has a few minor new ideas (the real identity of the masseuse) but no major new ones: it all comes down, once again, to Rei wanting to leave the Zero Division but finding it difficult to do so. Even the last scene is pretty much the exact same it was in "Zero Woman" Parts 1 & 3.


Cast View all

Mikiyo Ono Rei (aka Zero Woman)
Reina Tanaka Naomi
Kou Watanabe Shiina
Yoshiaki Fujiwara Yamamoto
Daisuke Ryu Mutoh
Kazuki Nagasawa Gohara
Jonathan Boggs Mutoh
Rebecca Honig Additional Voices
Carol Jacobanis Rei
Viktor Krüger Victor Krueger
Lynna Lewis Naomi
David Logan Rankin Gohara
Rena Tanaka Naomi
Tom Wayland Yamamoto
Buddy Woodward Shiina

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Edition details

Nr Discs 1
Subtitles English Dubbed
Regions Region 1

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Owner MLZ MEMBERS
Location MLZ ARCHIVES
Storage Device DIGITAL MEDIA FILE 1
Purchased At MLZ MEMBERS ONLY
Watched May 01, 2011
Index 4309
Added Date Oct 06, 2014 12:42:08
Modified Date Aug 22, 2022 20:20:39