Professor Naoya (Yuuki Kitazuma) is on track to build a police robot to
fight crime on the streets of Neo Tokyo, and especially the Cartel, a
supergang that has taken over all the other gangs of late to bring all
criminal activities under their control ... and then his lab is blown up
before he can finish his work, and he is believed to have gone up with it. 6
months later: Saijo (Kisuke Yamashito), the last honest cop, and a good
friend of Naoya, still tries to take down the Cartel and their leader
Henry Ohba (Shiro Sano), but Ohba hides behind a "respectable"
facade and is legally untouchable. Still, Saijo seems to get awfully close
to the truth, which is why the Cartel tries to take him down ... without
success, as Saijo is saved by a robot cop, who eventually turns out to be
Naoya's girlfriend Kaoru (Azuso Nakamura), whom he turned into his robot
prototype with his dying breath. From now on, the Cartel try to lure
robot Kaoru into death trap after death trap, usually using their
telekinetic strongman Amadeus (Masaru Matsuda), a gouvernment experiment
fallen into their hands to use to their advantage - as of course the
Cartel has its moles within the gouvernment, police and military. Amadeus
turns out to be quite effective, and Kaoru makes more than one close
escape ... but then the Cartel's subcommander Phantom decides to abandon
him in favour of a disintegrator gun - but when that doesn't work
immediately, it seems the plan is abandoned right away and Kaoru is
attacked with conventional weapons despite the fact that she has proven
impervious to bullets, which is well known to the Cartel, so she has no
problem taking out the entire gang. Eventually, Henry Ohba sends Amadeus
after her again, but she is saved by Saijo, even if this costs his own
life - then she goes after Ohba ... and justice prevails in the end of
course. Very obviously, Lady Battle Cop is based on RoboCop,
but was made on a fraction of that movie's budget, so of course it comes
across as a rather routine and slightly dull action movie with science
fiction elements. Also, it fails to live up to RoboCop in terms of
subversiveness and is at the same time not even half as (unintentionally)
hilarious (and thus entertaining) as the much shoddier Robo
Vampire - so what remains is typical Japanese early 1990's low
budget action fare
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