Gun Woman (2014) Full Movie
A brilliant doctor on a quest for revenge buys a young woman and trains her to be the ultimate assassin, implanting gun parts in her body that she must later assemble and use to kill her target before she bleeds to death.
Director : Kurando Mitsutake
Writer : Kurando Mitsutake
Stars : Asami, Kairi Narita, Noriaki Kamata
GUN WOMAN follows a Japanese doctor who vows revenge on a crazy sadistic killer after the man murdered his loving wife. Despite the maximum security that surrounds this billionaire, the doctor finds a perfect assassination plan when he turns a young Japanese woman into the most lethal assassin the world has ever seen. This outrageous plan -- his only chance for revenge -- will happen at an underground facility where the killer goes to fulfill his sexual fetishes. On the night before the plan is to be executed, the woman assassin is "completed" by the doctor... She is now, GUN WOMAN.
Reviews
It must be difficult for directors and writers to come up with new angles on well- worn story lines, but Kurando Mitsutake has achieved this in his low budget gem 'Gun Woman'. Though the acting of some of the cast is not as strong as it could be, the movie is not harmed by it due to Mitsutake's assured direction. The interplay between the hit man & driver who provide the back story to the film is a little stilted, but the central performances from Asami as Mayumi the Gun Woman, Kairi Narita the deranged Mastermind & Noriami Nakata the perverted villain are outstanding. Asami who speaks very little English is sensibly silent during the movie but still does an outstanding job of conveying a large range of emotions as her character Mayumi undergoes all manner of physical and psychological ordeals and in the last portion of the movie is naked as she fights toward her target. 'Gun Woman' unlike many recent Japanese 'B' movies is totally without any attempt to inject any goofy humour and though the blood flows freely, it isn't ridiculously excessive. It is a not a film for the squeamish, but if you enjoyed films like 'Ichi the Killer' or 'Sex & Fury' you'll find that 'Gun Woman' is one of the best exploitation movies of recent years. The only downside will be that many will accuse Mitsutake of misogyny, as every female in the movie is either naked, tortured, violated or killed (the opening scene of the movie shows the hit man shooting a naked woman in the head while she showers). It would be easy to attach the rather stupid label of 'torture porn' to this release, but it is so much more than that. Perhaps the only gripes are that the 'Rocky' style sequences of Asami training went on too long and there could have been less of the hit man & driver and more action for the stunning Asami in the climax – her battle against the huge male guard was one of the most brutal female versus male fights ever – and she did it naked! Asami wears a 'Sex & Fury' t-shirt in the blu-ray/DVD extras, a nod to the queen of pinky violence Reiko Ike who is still a cult figure for her energetic action roles is the 1970's. Hopefully Asami will continue to be cast gritty roles like this one.
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