Product Details

• Actors: Noriko Aota, Tetsuo Kurata, Kôji Shimizu, Minako Ogawa, Shiro Shimogen
• Directors: Shûji Kataoka
• Writers: Keiji Nakazawa, Shigeru Tsuchiyama
• Producers: Hiroshi Yamaji, Kotaro Takahashi, Shishido Tokuko, Yoshinori Chiba
• Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Tokyo Shock
• DVD Release Date: January 30, 2001
• Run Time: 75 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000053V5I
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #162,161 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Prisoner Maria - The Movie" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Convicted of killing the drug dealer who murdered her husband, Maria is blackmailed into serving as a covert assassin. She must do the government's bidding if she is ever to regain her freedom, or her son. With each completed mission, her sentenced is further re- duced. Yet, with every job she feels further away from her goal of a peaceful life.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid This Movie!, February 8, 2002

By A Customer

"Prisoner Maria - The Movie" is one of the worst things I have ever seen. To begin with, while Noriko Aota is very beautiful, to make her more appealing they use much older, marginally attractive women for the "erotic" scenes.
The "erotic" scenes are graphic forced rape (mostly gang related). We're not talking sanitized merely ripping off clothing, this is full on beating with fists, gun butts and clubs and lots of it.
Add to which the amount they expect from "willing suspension of disbelief" is incredible. At one point they have Maria trapped. She is hiding behind two quarter inch bars of steel making up a scaffolding and the guy with an Uzzi can't hit her only though she's only some six feet away (and he manages to expel three clips trying to do it).
The story is ludicrous, the casting appalling, and the escapes insulting in light of common sense.
Do yourself a favor, if you're looking for a movie in this genre look to "Zero Woman". Very much the same thing only well done. I found out about "Prisoner Maria" the hard way, I bought it!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Take caution if you are planning to buy this movie.", February 23, 2001

By	Robert Spiro (Durham, CT USA) - See all my reviews

Not to be confused with it's manga form. It is played by live actors, and is not anime. Noriko Aota, japanese pop singer, plays Maria, the lead role for this movie. The plot is that Maria kills the mob boss, who murdered her husband. When she is sent to jail, the warden makes her become an assasin for an outside, out of law organization. It is very action packed. But do not wath this movie if you are under 18, because it contains lots of nudity. All in all, its a pretty cheezy movie, but it's only recomended if you're a fan.