Yuki "Lady Death" Mifune
Yuki Mifune, AKA Lady Death (Sayaka Akimoto), is a villainess and major antagonist in the 2020 action film Sniper: Assassin's End. She is a highly-trained assassin and a talented marksman, rivalling even the legendary snipers Thomas and Brandon Beckett.
Plot[]
Lady Death was hired by Drake Phoenix to assassinate a foreign dignitary and frame Brandon Beckett for the crime. Later, she arrived at Beckett's home, planning to kill him and make it look like a suicide, but he had already been arrested by the CIA when she arrived.
Phoenix then hires a team of Russian mercenaries to kill Beckett while being transported to a maximum-security prison. He tells Lady Death to watch the operation and to clean up once it is finished, leaving no one alive. Beckett is able thwart the assassination attempt, and manages to dodge a single shot fired by Lady Death before escaping. With the plan failed, Lady Death eliminates the mercenaries.
After Beckett escapes, he travels to his father, Thomas Beckett's, home in the woods of Montana. It is here that Lady Death shows up again, swiftly and efficiently eliminating an entire team of CIA operatives who were trying to arrest Beckett and his father. This results in a stand-off between Lady Death and both American snipers. Realising that she will reveal her location when she fires, she causes one of the operatives' assault rifles to fire wildly, forcing the Becketts to find cover and allowing her time to escape.
However, she is quickly found again while preparing to shoot Brandon Beckett, and his father is able to disable Lady Death's rifle by shooting through the receiver. Lady Death flees again, but is found by Brandon. The two engage in hand-to-hand, where Lady Death ultimately gains the upper hand. Before she can kill Brandon, however, Thomas Beckett arrives and Lady Death is captured at gunpoint.
With his name cleared, Brandon Beckett meets up with the CIA team who were chasing him down, and suggests using Lady Death to find out who set him up. She agrees, on the condition that she be given immunity for her crimes in the USA. She persuades Phoenix to have Brandon brought to him, pretending to have captured him alive.
Upon arriving at Phoenix's hideout, he is able to see through Lady Death's deceptions and shoots her, hitting her in the shoulder before Brandon is able to tackle Phoenix to the ground. Badly wounded, but still alive, Lady Death finds and frees Agent Zeke Rosenberg. The two of them corner and capture Donald South, the mastermind behind the entire plot. Lady Death is last seen in a CIA safehouse with Rosenberg, who tells her that he is interested in her skills, to which she simply smiles.
Smiling upon realising that she has gotten away with everything.
Appearance []
Lady Death is a lean woman with short brown hair, parted to the sides away from her eyes. Throughout the movie she wears a leather catsuit, a biker jacket with latex pants, and finally a tanktop with leather pants for her final scenes. She also paints a red band across her eyes.
Trivia[]
- Lady Death's signature weapon is a DSR-1 bullpup sniper rifle chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum.
- Lady Death is played by Japanese popstar Sayaka Akimoto. This was her debut role in a Hollywood movie.
- The moniker "Lady Death" is likely a reference to Lyudmilla Pavlichenko, a female sniper from the Soviet Union who fought in World War II and the most successful female sniper in history.
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