FEMALE PRISONER #701: SCORPION
1972 · dir. Shunya Itō · 87 min
- Digital
- 18
- Repertory
Betrayed by the corrupt narcotics officer she loved and brutalised inside a women’s prison, Nami Matsushima survives by becoming something colder, quieter and infinitely more dangerous: Scorpion. Her captors can humiliate her, starve her and bury her underground - but they cannot extinguish her appetite for revenge. Meiko Kaji’s implacable stare anchors Shunya Itō’s explosive first Scorpion film, a ferocious pulp nightmare transformed by pop-art colour, expressionist sets and eruptions of surreal violence.
