Based on a comic by Tooru Shinohara who also penned the comic "Sasori" that was also made into a movie (imdb: Joshu Sasori: 701-go urami-bushi) starring Meiko Kaji. Meiko Kaji was the original Princess Blade (which was also based on a comic by Kazuo Kamimura), so you can see that Zero Woman has its roots in very edgy comic book genre.
Screen play was done by Fumio Kounami who also did the screen play for Sasori, and director is Yukio Noda is the one who did most of the delinquent themed movies for the Toei studio. With all the right characters in place, this movie was made to satisfy the adult audience of Japan at the time.
Zero Woman is a story about a lady cop who holds nothing back to get her job done including having sex with the criminal. In the Japanese police force, ichi-ka (The first division) is the homicide division. Then ni-ka (second division), san-ka (third division) has other specialized fields of investigation. Zero-ka (zero division) of course does not exist in the real Japanese police force. It's a fictitious creation by Shinohara, that handles assignments that needs to be taken care of covertly. Mio (Miki Sugimoto) is the only investigator in this division.
Mio was framed by her superiors and was sent to jail on a bad wrap for killing the culprit of the unsolved crime that ended in the death of her friend Amy. Around the same time Kyoko - a daughter of next prime minister candidate Zengo Nagumo was raped and captured by a gang run by Nakahara. Nakahara discovering that Kyoko is Zengo's daughter decides to blackmail Zengo for 30 million yen. Hearing about this, Mio's superiors decides to use Mio as an undercover detective to infiltrate Nakahara's gang. Since wide spread scandal would be ruinous to Nagumo's career, gag order has been laid so no information about the investigation will leak out. To solve the case in secrecy, Mio is ordered to rescue Kyoko, and kill all the members of the gang, so they wouldn't talk.
Toei studio made many good adult themed movies in the '70s. Some actually became bona fide classics such as Princess Snowblood, School of Holy Beast, Jeans Blues, and this one. The concept was good enough that remake has been made in recent years. This is the original, and although bit cheesy by today's standard, is very good for Asian movie of that era (compare this to some of the Shaw Brothers movies from the same era and you'll know what I mean). This movie is filled with exciting scenes depicting the under belly of Japanese society.
This is a fun movie, and is recommended for anyone who's a fan of Asian cinema.
Screen play was done by Fumio Kounami who also did the screen play for Sasori, and director is Yukio Noda is the one who did most of the delinquent themed movies for the Toei studio. With all the right characters in place, this movie was made to satisfy the adult audience of Japan at the time.
Zero Woman is a story about a lady cop who holds nothing back to get her job done including having sex with the criminal. In the Japanese police force, ichi-ka (The first division) is the homicide division. Then ni-ka (second division), san-ka (third division) has other specialized fields of investigation. Zero-ka (zero division) of course does not exist in the real Japanese police force. It's a fictitious creation by Shinohara, that handles assignments that needs to be taken care of covertly. Mio (Miki Sugimoto) is the only investigator in this division.
Mio was framed by her superiors and was sent to jail on a bad wrap for killing the culprit of the unsolved crime that ended in the death of her friend Amy. Around the same time Kyoko - a daughter of next prime minister candidate Zengo Nagumo was raped and captured by a gang run by Nakahara. Nakahara discovering that Kyoko is Zengo's daughter decides to blackmail Zengo for 30 million yen. Hearing about this, Mio's superiors decides to use Mio as an undercover detective to infiltrate Nakahara's gang. Since wide spread scandal would be ruinous to Nagumo's career, gag order has been laid so no information about the investigation will leak out. To solve the case in secrecy, Mio is ordered to rescue Kyoko, and kill all the members of the gang, so they wouldn't talk.
Toei studio made many good adult themed movies in the '70s. Some actually became bona fide classics such as Princess Snowblood, School of Holy Beast, Jeans Blues, and this one. The concept was good enough that remake has been made in recent years. This is the original, and although bit cheesy by today's standard, is very good for Asian movie of that era (compare this to some of the Shaw Brothers movies from the same era and you'll know what I mean). This movie is filled with exciting scenes depicting the under belly of Japanese society.
This is a fun movie, and is recommended for anyone who's a fan of Asian cinema.