Japanese Cinema Tip


Female Convict Scorpion R2 (Uk Import) - Ito, Shunya
Releasedatum: 19 februari 2007
Those who value balanced brain chemistry and a regular heart-rate, approach Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 with extreme caution. For within this film lies feral sex, hyper-violence, impulsive lesbian orgies, mock crucifixions, spoons sharpened into shivs. Eye-melting depictions of the most shockingly jagged DIY abortions.
Filmed in colours that tilt without warning from ashen, pale shades, into scrambled, lurid hues Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 brings the characters from Toruu Shinohara's popular manga to genital-swinging life. The storyline assumes the form of a quest for vengeance by a woman imprisoned - but director Shunya Ito's images and the singular star-presence of Meiko Kaji (Stray Cat Rock, Lady Snowblood) combine to transcend a common B-film revenge tale and take on an execution that is unadulterated IMPACT.
Although conceived as a follow-up to Ito's Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 can nonetheless be enjoyed and obsessed over as a standalone achievement, a unique totem for the annals of 1970's Japanese cine-exploitation. It's in this installment that full-blown artifice locks horns with psycho-sexual horror - before collapsing in a pile of offal, wearing the grin of a gassed corpse. Prepare yourself for lock-down.



Japanese Cinema Tip Archief

Nieuwsbrief Inloggen Bestellen Contact Over ons Winkelwagentje