Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion (1972)

aka Joshuu 701-gô: Sasori
dir Ito Shunya



Ito Shunya's debut film, based on a successful Big Comics manga by Shinohara Toru, introduces protagonist Matsushino Nami aka Matsu (Lady Snowblood actress Kaji Meiko) during a foiled jail-house escape she attempts with pretty, petite girlfriend Yuki (Watanabe Yayoi).

In a flashback is shown how Matsu was convinced by police detective and then-boyfriend Sugimi (Natsuyagi Isao) to go undercover to infiltrate a Yakuza syndicate. Discovered off the bat, Matsu endures a gang rape before the police, deliberately delayed, bust the criminals, now with the added charges with which to stick them. In retaliation Matsu sloppily ambushes Sugimi but gains only to land in the brink for attempted murder. Subdued by the cops, she hatches a revenge plot with ever reddening backlight, her hair stop-motioning its way on end.

In prison the ominously silent Matsu finds herself pitted against the jail house snitches, Masaki (Mihara Yoko), Katagiri (Yokoyama Rie), et al., as she allies with stoic and mysterious inmate referred to as "that bitch" (Ougi Hiroko). Sexploitation unavoidably abounds with gratuitous nudity and panty shots, exemplified best when Matsu, confined to solitary, subdues hottie Kitoh (Katayama Yumiko) with apparently amazing cunnilingus.

Torturous prison punishments are devised to break Matsu down, one such instance involving a prolonged, mass dig, resulting in a prison riot precipitated by Yuki killing a guard. During the stand-off the female prisoners hilariously force sex upon the male guards being held hostage.

Soon loose in Tokyo, donning a stylish, black trench coat and wide-brimmed pimp hat, Matsu achieves icon status as she enacts her final revenge; it's tongue-bitingly good.

Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion trailer (Japanese no subtitles):