Actress: Kotomi Asakura
Directed by: Minooru

I was really interested in making a review about this movie, because of the performance by its star (Miss Kotomi Asakura) and its shocking ending which to date, still leaves me in awe. And to contribute in any way possible to the GIMP community.

This movie is done by the fine folks at Giga, producers of Japanese Adult Videos which implement the use of Japanese sci-fi style FX and stories involving heroines who get raped by cheesy looking goons or monsters; and in some cases, their endangerment takes those given heroines to meet their erotic demise. Which is usually done in way more gruesome and cruel ways when Giga releases a film under their Zeus sub-divisional brand.

The story under review here is: Unjust Execution Heroine – Magical Idol Girl Star Light Rinka. Kotomi Asakura portrays the titular character Rinka, who here is a magical girl heroine who doubles as a Japanese pop singer (it seems her identity as a superheroine is public). She is a direct parody of the character Ranka Lee from the latest Macross anime, in which the aforementioned character is just a pop singer rather than a super heroine.

The movie opens with a scene of her capturing some masked thug without much effort, and then we pass to the opening credits with Rinka doing a performance as she is mentioned on a newscast. Someone is watching this newscast, some sinister looking old man. He later receives a video message from another sinister looking individual, and it seems they are planning something with Rinka.

Onto the next scene, we see Rinka happily with whom it seems is her agent and a woman who is her assistant/make-up girl. Seems like they were just planning out to start their day job as usual, when all of the sudden the sinister looking old man appears along with other men in suits. It seems the man is the police chief and is sick and tired on how Rinka has made the police department look bad, as she alone has done a better job against crime than he and his men. And it seems the best way to get rid of her is to turn her also into a criminal by framing her of a crime. And that crime is drug possession. How will this be done? Well, one of his suits plants a bag of drugs in Rinka's purse; they pull it out and that marks the end of Rinka's colorful days. Not even her agent knows what to do, and Rinka's martyrdom begins.

Once taken into custody, Rinka is taken into an interrogation room; but to her misfortune, there is no good cop. Just a bad cop who trashes her around like no tomorrow to the point of making her bleed. Probably he was trying to force her to “confess her crime” despite we all truly know what is going on.

Still my Japanese is limited so I am not sure if she confesses or not, but later the police chief arrives with a paper, which seem to be the order to take her to jail. And the media spread the news that their goody two shoes heroine might be a dirty drug dealer.

At prison, Rinka is getting her profile done. But not enough with having her mug shots taken, they hot iron brand her prison number in her right butt cheek. It is such a beautiful de-humanizing scene how the number 4100 is branded into her tender skin.

A short scene comes next where Rinka is sleeping in her cell after her terribly unjust torment, then the police chief comes in with some food for Rinka. He throws it out at her so she can eat it like the junkie bitch she is. Like anyone else would eat after receiving such a pain in the arse.

The next scene has Rinka being showered with a hose, something usually seen in prison films. Ironically, she is clothed during the scene, but as she is chained from the roof, she is defenseless to avoid such punishment. After that she is taken in to entertain some fellow male inmates with her pop show, and you can imagine what happens.

Not being professional, Rinka succumbs to the insults from the convicts rather than continue with the show. And soon not only she is broken morally but also in body as the convicts give her a sequel from her interrogation and beat her up all over the room. The guys aren't very smart as they don't rip off her clothes and molest her, but they do leave her to a bloody pulp. Come to think of, there is not much skin in this film.

After her performance in entertaining the male inmates; she once again is suspended from the ceiling and the interrogator returns to give her some good old electric torture. Sadly again she is clothed but we do see Rinka getting wet herself from the torture. After a while, interrogator guy finally becomes smart and removes Rinka of her panties. She uses a microphone/dildo to penetrate her.

At the end of the torment, the police chief arrives and maybe mentions the fate of poor Rinka. Which leaves us to the climax of the film and why I decided to write this review.

This scene... the final scene of the movie... we get to see some various kanji as eerie music plays, we see some stairs and it is all dark, nothing but cold and metallic colors which contrast and overwhelm Rinka's colorful and cheerful outfit.

It all points out that the crime committed by Rinka is punishable by death. Death by guillotine to be exact.

Rinka is taken by the chief all the way up to her execution device, as she cries and pleads. She begs and begs as she can't believe this is happening to her. Her final word is a long and screaming "nooooooooooo" as the blade descends and cuts her delicate neck. Her cute head with its pigtails fall all the way down to the ground as the metallic blade also makes its noise on the ground, and her headless body twitches and releases a post-mortem urination...

A ghostly theme plays as we see Rinka's open mouth covered in blood; we span to her eyes and then we see that the police have placed her decapitated head hanging from its pigtails. Perhaps as a warning in case some else decides to do the police's job and do it better than them? A tragic and unfit end for such a pure spirit; or a rightful one for such a lowlife drug junkie whore as how perhaps the police are telling the media how to handle the story.

Again, as I mentioned there is hardly any skin in the film which is a letdown; but I find the last scene, Rinka's execution, to be a powerful one. Here we see a poor helpless girl receiving a harsh exaggerated sentence for a crime she did not commit and worse is that it is the very same law that is supposed to take care of our society.

It probably never crossed her mind that it was the very same authorities the ones who set her up and not some enemy or even her agent or employee. From the little Japanese I understand, it seems she was trying to say that she "didn't do anything" as she cries desperately as her head is placed for execution. There is no hope for her, she is forsaken.

She is the perfect sacrificial lamb. Innocent yet has to endure painful humiliations in order to get to her gruesome end. A pointless martyrdom. Rinka is a superheroine and superheroes are usually a symbol of hope in fantasy as a way of escapism from cruel reality. But here we see a colorful heroine of fantasy meeting a realistic and cruel demise. Which is what I loved from this film.

A previous film in this line features a "Power Ranger" like character (JMSZ-09 Heroine Cruel Story - Beheading Pink) who also meets her end by the guillotine, but because she was wearing her helmet, we are not able to see the anguish in her expressions like the lovely Miss Asakura did. Plus that execution loses some drama as she is killed by a villainess of fantasy instead, while here Rinka receives an undeserved punishment from THE MAN. This is something we hear of quite often in our world, but the media or other parties usually do not give us full information about something (or there is some censorship) as it happens to poor little Rinka.