| Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers | |
| Director: | Masahide Kuwabara |
| Producer: | Tomoko Hojo Fueto Kikuchi Hideo Sugimoto Shinsuke Yamazaki |
| Starring: | Kumiko Takeda Keiji Matsuda |
| Music: | Ryuji Murayama |
| Cinematography: | Shigeru Komatsubara |
| Studio: | Vision Sugimoto |
| Distributor: | MAXAM |
| Runtime: | 86 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
is a 1996 Japanese V-Cinema erotic thriller film starring Kumiko Takeda. It is the third installment in the Zero Woman series.
Our main character, Rei, is a woman without a past. She works for the Zero Department, an underground police force. She is assigned to kill a group of crime bosses. At the same time, she is haunted by visions of her deceased father and ends up seeking solace of a man, who is later to be revealed to be the hitman hired by the group of crime bosses. Rei now faces a difficult choice.
The film was released direct-to-video in Japan on VHS on March 5, 1996 and was later released on DVD on March 25, 2000.[1] Central Park Media licensed the film under their Asia Pulp Cinema label. It was released on VHS subtitled on February 22, 2000 and dubbed VHS on April 15, 2001.[2] CPM later released the film on DVD on July 9, 2002.[3] The English dub was produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment in Burbank, California.
TV Guide's Reed Lowie gave the film two stars.[4] He said the film goes off through a slow start, and not enough action to satisfy the viewer, although Lowie also complimented on how the cinematography was well-done (aside from a few scenes that were shot in the dark. Jim Mclennan of GirlswithGuns.org described the film as "grimly fiendish, yet effective killer's romance".[5]