Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song (1973)

Description

An avenging angel... or a seductive siren? Conceive of her as you like - either way, she walks alone, this woman wronged by the world... this Scorpion with a taste for vengeance! - Beware of her clitoral sting! Meiko Kaji (femme fatale extraordinaire of the Stray Cat Rock and Lady Snowblood series) returns as Female Prisoner #701 - now escaped from the very authority that would grind her down. With one severed arm dangling from one handcuffed wrist, Kaji takes refuge in the home of a kindred soul... a latchkey slut in want of all the world’s sympathy... forced into a back-alley living for the sake of supporting her retarded brother... whose baby grows ever quick in her womb - oh life! No, it s not long until old enemies rearrive, new adversaries are inaugurated... and this waking nightmare gives way to a new dawn... soiled by indiscriminate abortion! This third instalment of the Female Prisoner series is perhaps also the finest, and in its concise layout it represents both a fitting conclusion to the Scorpion story as directed by Shunya Itô, and a stand-alone work requiring no familiarity with the preceding episodes. Seen either as a cinematic golf-club spelunking an orifice, or as a loving ode to human hate, one thing is certain: Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable exemplifies the grindhouse ethos in its haunting depiction of beauty...