Female convict scorpion series

Director yasuharu hasebe took the reins for meiko kajis swansong as sasori, female prisoner scorpion. Uk home video company arrow films released the film on bluray on july 26, 2016 within a boxset containing the first four films of the female prisoner scorpion series. Jul 21, 2015 japanese songs urami bushi by meiko kaji. Wip movies entered japanese pop culture with authorartist toru shinoharas sasori english. The results are a little uneven compared to the three films that came before it, but grudge song still manages to get enough right that its certainly worth a look for fans of the series.

The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. It is the second film in the series that is the definitive entry. Shunya ito is out, with new helmer yasuharu hasabe. The series s theme song states that the reddest rose has many thorns, but theres nothing prickly about the transfers, extras, and packaging for female prisoner scorpion. Female convict scorpion jailhouse 41 is one of the most. What follows is a crazed, seething avantgarde classic that plays out as the illogical conduit between the first. Grudge song beast stable was a tough act to follow. The second in a series of exploitation films based on a japanese adult manga magazine, this overthetop jailbreak movie pits the silentbutdeadly scorpion meiko kaji against a sadistic warden. The fourth, and last in the first female prisoner scorpion series, meiko kaji returned to play the title role, but director shunya ito was replaced by yasuharu hasebe. It is the second in the female convict scorpion series. Jailhouse 41 is a film released in 1972 by toei company. A pinky violence series that transcended the label to become a key chapter in classic japanese cinema, the fourfilm chronicle of female prisoner scorpion is the ultimate showcase for the great meiko kaji, an indelible presence from her pair of lady snowblood films, the stray cat rock series, and other titles like blind womans curse.

Japanese film at the time, and where the scorpion series fits in, and a trailer. Then, kaji jumped to a new studio, toei, and teamed up with director shunya ito for the extraordinarily strange womeninprisonbased female convict scorpion series. Scorpion series i had actually watched it backwards from 4 to 1, and it shows how the scorpion ended up in prison and how hard she is. Anyone unfamiliar with the old films should be able to accept and enjoy it at face value. Pages in category female convict scorpion series the following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. The first was director shunya itous debut in 1972, and he also directed the second and third. Beast stable 1973 saw series director shunya ito bow out with a nightmarish film involving incest, a onearmed policeman and a vicious female hoodlum. With meiko kaji, rie yokoyama, yayoi watanabe, yoko mihara. For within this film lie feral sex, hyperviolence, impulsive lesbian orgies, mock crucifixions. May 22, 2001 in 1991, evil dead trap director toshiharu ikeda resurrected the character in female convict scorpion. In this installment after spending a year in solitary confinement, matsu meiko kajji escapes from prison with six other convicts. B ased on an xrated adult manga series comics, the sensationally beautiful star of the lady snowblood films, gets to act tough in the crudely violent female convict scorpion series. The police surround her on a subway, she gets handcuffed, but scorpion manages to hack the arm off the police officer and escapes.

The complete collection, arrow videos thoroughly awesome bluray set, one of the years most essential releases. The seriess theme song states that the reddest rose has many thorns, but theres nothing prickly about the transfers, extras, and packaging for female prisoner scorpion. Meiko kaji lady snowblood, stray cat rock reprises her role as the beautiful yet deadly nami matsushima, a woman who was wrongfully imprisoned in the first film in the series. The opening sequence is maybe the greatest opening in the history of cinema. Here, kajis gothic tendencies were given free rein, especially in the astonishing second chapter. She has appeared in about 100 films, with her most famous roles being outlaw characters in early 1970s films, such as the rebels of the stray cat rock series, the assassin lady snowblood, and the murderous nami matsushima from the female prisoner 701.

Scorpion, was essentially a womeninprison picture that combined the action, violence and titillation typical of that subgenre with a striking number of audacious artistic touches. It stars meiko kaji and is directed by shunya ito, who also directed the first film in the series female convict 701. Female convict scorpion dvd, 2011 for sale online ebay. The results are a little uneven compared to the three films that came before it, but grudge song still manages to get enough right that its certainly worth a look. She spends most of her time being tortured or gangraped, however, so these are not the kind of heroic films encountered with the two snowblood movies, wherein female power is not given such a demeaning context. While the female prisoner scorpion series has had a variety of home video releases over the years, uk company arrow films have outdone.

The star and director shunya ito were paired in all three. Scorpion one of the alltime classics of the womeninprison genre. It is the third in the female convict scorpion series, following female convict 701. That series is now available on bluray in a new box set from arrow video, female prisoner scorpion. Female prisoner scorpion the complete collection trailer. Jailhouse 41 sees director shunya ito and star meiko kaji reunite as nami and six other female convicts escape. Nowhere in my experience is this more ballsout perfect than in female convict scorpion. Jailhouse 41 those who value balanced brainchemistry and a regular heartrate, approach female convict scorpion. Female prisoner scorpion collection bluray arrow films. The fourth and final film in the original female convict scorpion series finds meiko kaji reprising her most famous role for the final time and a new director in the drivers seat. Jailhouse 41, which was released by image and eastern star, rapid eye in germany, and eureka in the uk. Scorpion 39years after it came out and it is still a good movie. Joshuu sasori series are women in prison films surprise. Starring the iconic and beautiful meiko kaji lady snowblood, stray cat rock in a role that came to define her career, the fourfilm female prisoner scorpion series charts the vengeance of nami matsushima, who assumes the mantle of scorpion, becoming an avatar of retribution and survival, and an unlikely symbol of female resistance in a maledominated world.

Female convict scorpion is also considered a women in prison series as well, though beast stable takes place outside of the jailhouse for the most part. Taking its name as a riff on the much more highbrown female convict scorpion series, this womeninprison sleazer is pretty solid. Exaggeration of many shots and the characters themselves. The first three films in the female prisoner scorpion series, all of which were directed by shunya ito, stand out for me as the pinnacle of artisticallyrendered 1970s japanese exploitation. Female prisoner scorpion series by jim mclennan may 16, 20 august 28, 2019 feature. The entire scorpion, or sasori series, which consists of the films female convict 701. Death threat 1991, in which naoko amihama played nami. The original four scorpion movies have seen dvd release in a number of territories, including anamorphic discs from media blasters in the us except female convict scorpion. In the first half of the 1970s, meiko kaji was to the slightlydisreputable end of japanese cinema, much what pam grier was to the same end of hollywood movies.

See, after she gives herself to him, he manages to convince her to help him. An absolutely phenomenal surrealistcumexploitation picture, female convict scorpionjailhouse 41 is the second in a series of films about matsu known to her fellow inmates as scorpion, a diminutive but volatile woman who is wrongly sent to prison by a betraying boyfriend. With meiko kaji, fumio watanabe, yukie kagawa, kayoko shiraishi. An absolutely phenomenal surrealistcumexploitation picture, female convict scorpion jailhouse 41 is the second in a series of films about matsu known to her fellow inmates as scorpion, a diminutive but volatile woman who is wrongly sent to prison by a betraying boyfriend. Scorpion introduces nami, a gullible young woman unjustly imprisoned, who must find a way to escape in order to exact revenge upon the man who betrayed her. Female prisoner scorpion collection standard reissue arrow us. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. Grudge song are all visually striking early 70s japanese exploitation films filled with violent imagery, but its the second film in the. Special cellblock x 1977, in which yoko natsuki played nami. The campiness that i refer to is the same campiness that has made the evil dead series such a success.

It stars meiko kaji and is directed by shunya ito, who also directed the first film in the series female. After the amazing, over the top pyrotechnics of female convict scorpion. Each film is stuffed full of surrealist imagery, imaginative compositions and breathtaking visual lyricism. A stoic and imposing figure, she combines unexpected bursts. Matsu, known as scorpion, has been sent to prison through the evil manipulations of an exboyfriend. This archetypal women in prison film is lifted above its colleagues in the genre, most of which are little more than crude exploitation, by being pretty damn sophisticated exploitation. With the departure of shunya ito, yasuharu hasebe, who had worked with kaji on the stray cat rock series, stepped to helm the most uneven film of the series. Beast stable, joshu sasori kemono beya is a film made by toei company in 1973. Apr 09, 2020 female convict scorpion is director joe mas moderately entertaining, but frustratingly uneven updating of the classic female prisoner scorpion series.

After spending a year in solitary confinement, matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs. However, for diehard female prisoner scorpion and meiko kaji fans, its a bit of a disappointment. Female convict scorpion jailhouse 41 has matsu recaptured and placed in solitary confinement, before escaping the bowels of the prison with six other inmates in tow. She spends most of her time being tortured or gangraped, however, so these are not the kind of heroic films encountered with the two snowblood movies, wherein. The story itself is very unique, following a group of escape female convicts lead by an awesome character named scorpion. 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. This bluray collection actually represents the first bluray version of any female prisoner scorpion movie. Aug 17, 2016 the seriess theme song states that the reddest rose has many thorns, but theres nothing prickly about the transfers, extras, and packaging for female prisoner scorpion. Kaji, in the meantime, went on to star in lady snowblood shurayukihime in 1973 and its sequel the following year, toshiya fujitas feminisation of the lone wolf kozure okami series released by. Female convict scorpion is director joe mas moderately entertaining, but frustratingly uneven updating of the classic female prisoner scorpion series. This is the second movie in the series where we come to learn that this tiny firecracker of a woman is full of strength, beauty and an honor which outshines her peers and the cage within which shes contained.

It takes the cake because its candy crazy colors suggest that intense prolonged pain and incarcerationindeed that being a female unwilling to bow her head to the rutting japanese males petty tyrannymight lead to pop art candy color satori. For those of you unfamiliar with the joshuu sasori series heres the list of films in order. Perhaps, shuyna itos second film in the female prisoner scorpion series, female prisoner scorpion. This is not the case with female convict scorpion jailhouse 41. Though it starts off raunchy as an inmate furiously masturbates before being dragged to the loony bin, much of film is a more emotionally driven story of lost love. Happy birthday to meiko kaji, glamorous icon of japanese. Jailhouse 41 1972 is more impressive visually and more satisfying plotwise than the first film.