Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs

Before the Zero Woman films of the 1990s, came this entry from 1974 directed by Yukio Noda. The way too cute Miki Sugimoto plays Agent Zero, a cop who tends to shoot first and ask questions later. After she kills a would be rapist, she’s sent to prison for her unorthodox methods. Soon though, when the daughter of a prominent Japanese politician is kidnapped by a gang of lowlifes, the politician has Agent Zero sprung from prison so that she can infiltrate the gang and save his daughter on the down low, without causing a lot of publicity and thus avoiding a big scandal. —Cinemageddon