Space Heroine Mary: The actresses name is Miko Hosono, and in case you're wondering, like all of Zen's other actresses she is hot, damn near perfect. This one interested me so much I had to buy it. It is not available from a North American source. More about that later. The movie starts out with the girl in a short skirt, white blouse and matching vest. Did I mention she has great legs? She walks into a convenience store. It is obvious the clerk develops a crush on her. She spends (far too much) time wandering around the store looking at merchandise before wandering up to the counter. At that point two gang bangers enter the store to rob the place. She defeats them easily in a fairly convincing fight. When they are out, they get up and take some drugs, then they enter the store again to attack her as drug crazed lunatics. This time the fight is much more intense and Mary gets knocked around a little bit but still defeats her foes.

In the next scene she is sitting on a park bench when a man in a military uniform and six ninjas appear. As she stands up to face them she suddenly feels weakened (how or why I have no idea). She is tossed around like a rag doll by the ninjas who take turns kicking her, stomach punching her, and generally beating her. She is finally knocked unconscious. This is a great scene, the kind of scene that is missing from so many of the Attackers style flicks. She does a great job of acting and sells it. I'll give it an A-; if she was more scantily clad it would be an A easy.

The next scene she awakes tied AOH in a bra and panties (looks more like a great bikini). Did I mention she has great tits and a nice flat stomach to go along worth the face of an angel? There is water dripping on her; she is cold (shivering) and soaked. The villains appear with electrical torture device. What follows is the best electro torture scene I've ever seen. She is bit gagged with a rag, and twists and contorts until she is finally barely conscious. The scene concludes with her laying on the floor of a cell. Overall, I'll give it an A; if she was topless it would have been an A+

In the next scene one of the ninjas sneaks into her cell. It turns out to be the store clerk who has come to save her. Next we see her sitting on the floor sharing a few moments with the clerk. She is now clothed in the original short skirt with a vest but no blouse. Then she attempts to escape and the clerk is shot. She attempts to get to a computer panel (evidently her objective). When she touches it, it burns her vest off, a plus. Then the man in the military uniform commands this giant of a man in a black spacesuit to attack her. What happens is a second devastating beat-down with some big time wrestling moves thrown in for good measure. These scenes are long, and that makes them better. She is punched, kicked, choked, thrown airborne and left barely able to stand. I won't spoil it this time.

Overall I give this effort an A. It would be an A+ if it included a rape or believable whipping scene and or some nudity. The girl is almost flawlessly hot, and she does a good job acting (almost Academy Award level) compared to many other J flicks. The costumes (normal clothing) were not nearly as distracting as some other efforts in this genre. Giga in particular has some terrible costumes.

Now the purchasing part. This DVD is not available in North America, I had found this source and decided to shoot the wad. It's about $65, almost $70 with shipping. But then again I've had 5-8 DVD orders of J films here that didn't produce as many total minutes of delicious gimp worthy action as this one did. And I've seen pricier stuff with far uglier chicks. Anyway I decided to try these guys.

https://www.catfight.co.jp/english/genrelist.html

And I would recommend them wholeheartedly. I ordered on Thursday night and received my order on Monday from Japan!!! They had excellent email communication. One note, be sure and look at the movie boxes to ascertain whether or not there region 0 DVD's or region 1's. Region 2 or 3 DVD's will not play on most American DVD players. This played flawlessly and were excellent quality original prints. Obviously it's more money and I would certainly be very picky about the stuff I ordered. But both Zen and Giga have huge catalogs with some great actresses that just aren't available thru the normal channels. At least this provides an alternative. They also have some intriguing stuff in other categories.