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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

1972 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

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798.31 MB
1280*534
Japanese 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
P/S 0 / 1
1.45 GB
1920*800
Japanese 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
P/S 1 / 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kazu-hirose8 / 10

This Has It All

While the three films that follow this are worth watching and have action and stir emotions as usual the first one is the best. It shows the most jailhouse brutality, desirable nudity and, just believe me for now, has the most dialogue from the star despite her being in jail.

This is from 1972. What do we have in 2021? Humanity and art are going backwards.

Reviewed by james-hazard9 / 10

Watch it

The first 30 minutes of this film will break your heart, so be ready for it. I will never forget this beautiful and sad movie nor the beautiful and sad almond eyed Kaji. And neither will you, unless you are dead inside. Watch it.

Reviewed by paul_haakonsen6 / 10

Watchable, but not an overwhelming movie experience...

Taking into consideration that the movie is made in 1972, then it is actually a movie that you can still watch today, and that alone is quite an accomplishment in itself.

For a 'women behind bars' type of movie, or whatever these movies are labelled as, then "Female Prisoner 701 Scorpion" (aka "Joshû 701-gô: Sasori") is fairly straight forward. Sure, it is entertaining, but it hardly a movie that really makes you go wow.

There is a lot of time spent on watching Matsu (played by Meiko Kaji) being delt harsh physical labor as punishment in the prison and having to watch her perform said punishment. While it is something that definitely sets a tone in the movie, it just got a little bit too tedious halfway through the movie.

As for the acting, then it was adequate. It was a shame that the Matsu character didn't have that much dialogue to perform in the movie, because I think that Meiko Kaji's true potential was not given the freedom to express itself that she deserved.

The dialogue in the movie wasn't really something that you should get your hopes up for. Sure, it was serving the movie well enough, but this was hardly Mark Twain material.

Director Shun'ya Itô was good at keeping the movie within a watchable perimeter where it didn't slip out into becoming too much with the nudity and rough scenes. It was actually done in a very good manner, I think, and that definitely kept the movie afloat a long way down the river.

While "Female Prisoner 701 Scorpion" is watchable and entertaining, it is not a movie that made me feel like I had been missing out on a great cinematic gem here, after all today in 2019 is the first time I am watching it.

My rating of the movie is six out of ten stars.

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