Starring: Ayumu Kase

Produced by: Giga

Running time: 95 minutes

Petite Japanese porn star Ayumu Kase, star of the modern classic Slave Island 7, is back in this Giga flick about a sword-wielding ninja warrior who is mistreated and raped.

Sadly, Ayumu's return to GIMP-land is far from triumphant. While her acting is as strong as ever, Female Ninja 5 - Red Phoenix is an uneven film that often misses the mark.

As is common in a Giga flick, the movie starts with fight scenes between Ayumu and some bad guys. Unlike other Giga films, however, this one is set on a recognizable Earth. There are no goofy-looking alien costumes; everyone in the film looks human.

This movie does have some mystic touches, though. It starts in the opening sequence after Ayumu stabs an enemy ninja with her sword. As the guy is falling to the ground to die, he touches the right side of Ayumu's face, putting some kind of spell on Ayumu that causes her to have sexually charged thoughts.

That night, as Ayumu is lying in bed, she is possessed by raunchy dreams. She has her sword with her in bed, encased in its sheath. Sweaty and aroused Ayumu is pretty much masturbating herself with the sheath, rubbing it against her clothed pussy area. When she falls asleep, Ayumu is still in heat (this will be important later on).

In one of the next fight scenes, Ayumu -- dressed in a purple kimono -- uses her sword to try to defeat three villains who appear to be unusually strong. But Ayumu is overpowered and disarmed by the lead villain (the guy who ran Slave Island, incidentally) and she receives some hard punches to her belly.

Ayumu is thrown to the ground, where she receives more blows and her kimono is opened up. The lead villain and Ayumu wrestle around a bit and Ayumu is strangled and choked until she passes out.

Inside the villains' hideout, Ayumu is standing on a stage, with her arms bound over her head and tied to the ceiling. Ayumu has been stripped down to a tube top and a fundoshi. One of the three villains holding Ayumu captive is beating Ayumu with an encased sword. Ayumu, whose body is visibly bruised, does some great gasping and cries out in pain as she is beaten.

The lead villain stands behind Ayumu and pulls down her tube top to expose her small tits. The fiend fondles Ayumu's little titties as pretty Ayumu squirms and protests.

A villain with a flogger runs the handle of the flogger between Ayumu's legs. The villain then proceeds to brutally whip Ayumu with the flogger.

The whippings are harsh and are shown from different angles, and Ayumu's cries are terrific. Unfortunately, the intensity of the whippings is weakened by various interruptions in the action, such as the lead guy stepping in to pour hot tea on Ayumu's body or to tug on her fundoshi to hurt her pussy. There are some powerful moments but the stop-and-start approach to the whippings dampens the overall effect.

Ayumu is next seen lying unconscious in dirt, with dirt also covering much of her body. A guy pours hot tea into Ayumu's mouth to wake her up. The villain grabs Ayumu's hair and slaps her face around.

The villain chokes Ayumu and forces her mouth open so the lead villain can pour in some hot tea, which Ayumu spits up.

Ayumu receives four more hard slaps to her face and her hair is grabbed again. Ayumu is choked and she lets out a loud groan as a large quantity of hot tea is poured on her face and into her mouth, literally overflowing from her mouth.

Ayumu's face is slapped again and the lead villain puts his foot on Ayumu's chest as more tea is forced into her mouth. Ayumu almost drowns in the stuff, gurgling it up and gasping for air.

As Ayumu remains lying in the dirt, the lead villain uses ninja powers to hurt Ayumu by jabbing his thumb against parts of her body and her head. This leaves Ayumu almost passed out.

And then....

"Oh, Bobby, it was awful."

Ayumu jolts up from her bed, holding the sheath and gasping, and it's confirmed that all those scenes about the fighting and the whippings and the tea were just part of Ayumu's dirty dreams.

Back in the land of the conscious, Ayumu gets into some real-world fights in the outdoors with the villains. She is overpowered by one guy with a small scythe who forces her on her back and uses a metal chain to bind her hands. Unfortunately, the chain isn't tied properly and Ayumu doesn't look believably helpless.

The villain uses the scythe to rip open Ayumu's top. The villain then helps himself to the goods, licking and sucking Ayumu's small breasts. While Ayumu's grunts and protests are convincing, the scene doesn't work because the heroine isn't properly restrained.

The villain moves Ayumu into a seated position and his hand rubs the bottom part of her costume to massage her pussy. After getting rubbed for a bit, Ayumu uses a high kick to the villain's head to break free.

She doesn't stay free for long. The lead villain appears with a straw voodoo doll version of Ayumu, which he uses to torture her. Ayumu rolls on the ground as the lead villain pokes the voodoo doll. The lead villain also brushes some kind of liquid on the voodoo doll, which makes Ayumu horny. Eventually, the lead villain is killed by the other guy, who takes control of the voodoo doll.

Back inside the villains' hideout, the guy who had started to have his way with Ayumu in the outdoors decides to finish the job. He licks Ayumu's pussy and uses a vibrator on her, forces Ayumu to suck his cock, and violates Ayumu in different positions. Once again, though, Ayumu isn't credibly restrained. While the scenes may technically be non-consensual since Ayumu is likely under some kind of spell, none of it is particularly effective.

The movie ends with Ayumu lying alone on a mattress, squirming and crying as her pussy continues to be possessed.

My grade: B-