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Rating: 8 stars

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)

Directed by Shunya Ito

Crime | Thriller | Drama

Overview

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

Length 90 minutes

Actors

Meiko Kaji | Fumio Watanabe | Kayoko Shiraishi | Yuki Aresa | Hiroko Isayama | Yukie Kagawa | Hôsei Komatsu | Gôzô Sôma | Eiko Yanami | Kuniko Ishii | Hideo Murota | Kyôichi Satô | Shinzô Hotta | Fudeko Tanaka | Hiroshi Hasegawa | Nenji Kobayashi | Akira Kuji | Reiko Kasahara | Sakae Itami | Hiroshi Date | Kai Atô | Chû Takatsuki | Osamu Yamanouchi | Takayuki Koide | Hideko Konoe | Kôichi Yamada | Kaoru Sono | Midori Yamamoto | Toshie Kokabu | Kiyome Takemura | Jun Aida | Sayoko Tanimoto | Hisako Yaohara | Masumi Nadachi | Jirô Sagawa | Sakae Yamaura | Kengo Miyaji | Matsujirô Iwai | Chikara Gonoue | Osamu Kimura | Shigeru Yokoyama | Shinobu Miura | Rokkô Toura | Mitsuo Andô | Hiroshi Hayashi | Koji Miemachi

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Finally cracked into my Female Prisoner Scorpion blu-ray set from Arrow to finish the night on a high note (Meiko Kaji).

I don’t think Meiko says one word during this film. Maybe she does early on but at some point past the halfway mark I started really paying attention to whether she would speak. This is a brilliant role in that everything she does is conveyed by her expression. And she’s fierce as fuck. Also the lurid colors counterbalance the neutral prison tones. This is a wild film that is doing a lot with very little. I love it.

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