Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion

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The correct title of this article is Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion. The substitution or omission of the # is because of technical restrictions.
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
女囚701号/さそり
File:Female Convict Scorpion 1972.jpg
DVD cover
Directed by Shunya Itō[1]
Written by Fumio Konami
Hirō Matsuda
Based on A comic by Toru Shinohara
Starring Meiko Kaji
Rie Yokoyama
Music by Shunsuke Kikuchi
Cinematography Hanjiro Nakazawa
Edited by Osamu Tanaka
Distributed by Toei Company
Release dates
 August 25, 1972 (Japan)
Running time
 87 minutes
France: 83 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (女囚701号/さそり Joshū Nana-maru-ichi Gō / Sasori?)[n 1] is a 1972 Japanese women in prison film made by Toei Company. It stars Meiko Kaji and was Shunya Itō's first film as a director. The film is based on a comic by Tōru Shinohara. The film was followed by several sequels, including Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 and Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable, and has also been remade several times.

Plot

Nami Matsushima (Meiko Kaji) is set up by her boyfriend, a crooked police detective named Sugimi (Isao Natsuyagi) to win favor with the Yakuza. She is raped by several drug dealers. She makes a failed attempt to stab Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters. She is sentenced to do hard time in a women's prison. Matsushima is given the number 701. The prison is run by sadistic and lecherous male guards. The prisoners are forced to walk up and down a stair-like contraption naked with male guards watching from below. While in prison she meets inmates like Yuki Kida (Yayoi Watanabe) who was committed for fraud and theft, Otsuka (Akemi Negishi), jailed for burglary and extortion, and Katagiri (Rie Yokoyama) who has been impounded for arson and illegally disposing of a body. On the outside, Sugimi and the Japanese mafia orchestrate a plan in which Matsushima will succumb to an "accidental" death in prison. They enlist the help of Katagiri, pulling on her ties to both Sugimi and the mafia, and quickly set their plan in motion.

Matsushima is attacked in the shower but defends herself, wounding the attacker. She is punished by being held bound by ropes in solitary confinement. A group of trustees including Katagiri torments her. One of them torments her by pouring hot soup on her. Matsushima is able to trip the trustee and make her spill the vat of hot soup over herself, causing horrible burns. Matsushima is forced to dig dirt holes for two days and nights straight. She kills a woman who attempts to attack her during this digging by tripping her and breaking her neck. Matsushima is hung and tied from the ceiling while being beaten by her fellow prisoners.

After a riot, Matsushima escapes and kills all the Yakuza and Sugimi with a dagger. The film ends with Matsushima walking alone back in prison.

Cast

Release

Home video

Female Prisoner #701 was first released on DVD for Region 1 by Tokyo Shock on April 27, 2004.[2] UK home video company Arrow Films will release the film on Blu-ray on July 26, 2016 within a box-set containing the first four films of the Female Prisoner Scorpion series. Limited to 3000 copies, the box set will contain new 2K restorations of all four films included in the set as well as numerous special features, with Female Prisoner #701 including a new filmed appreciation by director Gareth Evans (The Raid: Redemption), a new interview with the film's assistant director Yutaka Kohira, an archival interview with director Shinya Ito, and the theatrical trailers of "all films in the series".[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Female Convict 701: Scorpion

References

  1. ↑ Infobox data from Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Joshuu 701-gô: Sasori (1972) at IMDb
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