Female Convict Scorpion - Jailhouse 41 DVD

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Female Convict Scorpion - Jailhouse 41

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Release Date: 19 February 2007

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Certificate:	18

Cast List:	Meiko Kaji

Director:	Shunya Ito

Special Features:	Original theatrical trailer., Full colour insert featuring a new essay by Matt Palmer, co-curator of the Wild

Region:	Region 2

Aspect Ratio:	Aspect Ratio 2.35:1,Anamorphic Widescreen

Number of Disks:	1

Main Language:	Japanese

Subtitle Languages:	English

Description

Those who value balanced brain-chemistry and a regular heart-rate, approach Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 with extreme caution. For within this film lie 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 lurid hues, Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 brings the characters from Tooru 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 stand-alone achievement, a unique totem for the annals of 1970s Japanese cine-exploitation. It's in this instalment that full-blown artifice locks horns with psychosexual horror - before collapsing in a pile of offal, wearing the grin of a gassed corpse. Prepare yourself for lock-down.