In this installment of the Zero Woman series, Rei, the number-one assassin of the Tokyo Police Department's secret Zero Division, has been assigned to take out a notorious gangster responsible for dozens of murders. At the same time, she must protect the gangster's mistress from the hitmen who want to keep her from telling the police what she knows. At first, both women are upset about the arrangement, but they eventually come to appreciate each other.
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Chieko Shiratori | Rei |
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Ichiho Matsuda | Nana |
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Terunori Miyazaki | Natsume |
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Ken Miyawaki | Yamaguchi |
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Daisuke Ryu | Mutoh |
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Masayoshi Nogami | Kaneda |
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Shirô Shimomoto | Kirishima |
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Keizo Nagashima | Tanase |
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Tadashi Okuno | Satake |
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Hajime Tsukumo | |
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Jonathan Boggs | Additional Voices |
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Scott Cargle | Tanabe |
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Jeff Gimble | Additional Voices |
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Wayne Grayson | Kirishima |
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Ed MacLeod | Mutoh |
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Debora Rabbai | Nana |
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David Logan Rankin | Kaneda |
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Suzanne Savoy | Rei |
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Rodd Stone | Yamaguchi |
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Greg Wolfe | Satake |
| Director | Hidekazu Takahara |
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| Arlen Tarlofsky |
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| Writer | Takashi Kaneda, Tooru Shinohara, Hidekazu Takahara, Miyuki Takahashi | |
| Producer | John O'Donnell, Stephanie Shalofsky, Tom Wayland | |
| Musician | Kentaro Nojima | |
| Photography | Shuji Tomita | |
| Edition | Engiish Subtitles Included |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Subtitles | English |
| Regions | Region 1 |
| Owner | RICK SPRINKLE |
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| Location | ARCHIVES |
| Storage Device | DIGITAL MEDIA |
| Purchased | On Apr 28, 2012 at SEND US MESSAGE VIA FACEBOOK |
| Watched | Apr 28, 2012 |
| Index | 4306 |
| Added Date | Oct 06, 2014 12:42:08 |
| Modified Date | Aug 22, 2022 20:21:21 |
Top secret police hit woman, Rei(Shiratori), is hunting down transplant organ thieves linked to the mob. She is detailed to protect a moody Yakuza moll(Matsuda) who is willing to implicate her former sugar daddy(Nogami) in the organ stealing. Unknown to Rei, the moll has earned the wrath of her benefactor by running off with his best lieutenant and 200 million yen. Strings get pulled by politicians, Rei is called off the case, and the moll is hung out to dry.
As Miike and Mochizuki have proved V-cinema can throw up some amazing talents who use genre films imaginatively and originally. The lack of a set audience also increases the opportunities to shock and to bend boundaries. The Zero Woman series has spawned at least 6 V-cinema releases and is a potent concoction of girls and guns. This is the fifth instalment and benefits greatly from the presence of the gorgeous and awfully cool Shiratori. She applies a certain sangfroid to everything she does in this role from dispatching Yakuza picking apart dead bodies to falling in love with the moll. Shiratori’s presence allows the other characters to fill their roles with confidence and the relationship with Matsuda is exquisitely developed and never unbelievable.
This is an extreme film at times and the image of the elderly patriarch Kaneda dressed in high heels and a Basque will haunt me to the grave. The grisly opening sequence in the slaughterhouse, the shootout in the asylum and the final showdown with human stew and severed head are well handled but surprising. Given the sheer volume of Yakuza movies it is refreshing to see one as well handled and original as this. The credit for that goes to the director, Takahara, who handles the action as well as the interplay.
In short, Zero Woman: Dangerous Game is a sexy, sleek and surprising watch recommended for someone who wants a bit more sex appeal than Takashi Ishi’s Black Angel films.
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