Container of (work): Female prisoner #701 : Scorpion (Motion picture) Container of (work): Female prisoner Scorpion : Jailhouse 41 (Motion picture) Container of (work): Female prisoner Scorpion: Beast stable (Motion picture) Container of (work): Female prisoner Scorpion : #701's grudge song (Motion picture)
Notes:
Female prisoner #701 : Scorpion: originally released as a motion picture in 1972. Jailhouse 41: originally released as a motion picture in 1972. Beast Stable: originally released as a motion picture in 1973. Grudge Song: originally released as a motion picture in 1973. Meiko Kaji. Disc 1: Female prisoner #701: Scorpion: Special edition contents: newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Gareth Evans; Shunya Ito: Birth of an Outlaw, an archive interview with the director; Scorpion Old and New: a new interview with assistant director Yutaka Kohira. Disc 2: Female prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41: Special edition contents: newly filmed appreciation by critic Kier-La Janisse; Japanese cinema critic Jasper Sharp examines the career of Shunya Ito; Designing Scorpion, a new interview with production designer Tadayuki Kuwana. Disc 3: Female prisoner Scorpion: Beast stable: Special edition contents: newly filmed appreciation by critic Kat Ellinger; Shunya Ito: Directing Meiko Kaji, an archive interview with the director; Unchained Melody, a new visual essay by Tom Mes on the career of Meiko Kaji. Disc 4: Female prisoner Scorpion: #701's grudge song: Special edition contents: newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Kazuyoshi Kumakiri; Yasuharu Hasebe: Finishing the Series, an archive interview with the director; Japanese cinema critic Jasper Sharp examines the career of Yasuharu Hasebe; They Call Her Scorpion, a new visual essay by Tom Mes on the film series.
Contents:
(2016) / About the transfers. Vengeance is hers (2016) / Yoshiki Hayashi -- Grudge Song: an interview with Meiko Kaji (1997) / Chris D. -- Birth of Scorpion : an interview with creator Toru Shinohara (2016) / Yoshiki Hayashi -- About the transfers.
Summary:
"Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion introduces Nami, a gullible young woman unjustly imprisoned, who must find a way to escape in order to exact revenge upon the man who betrayed her. The visually avant-garde Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 sees director Shunya Ito and star Meiko Kaji re-unite as Nami and six other female convicts escape prison once more. The Gothic horror-inspired Beast Stable finds Nami branded public enemy #1 and on the run. She soons finds refuge with a sympathetic prostitute, but runs afoul of a local gang. The final film in the series, #701's Grudge Song, shows a gentler side of Nami as she falls in with Kudo, an ex-radical suffering from physical and psychology trauma caused by police torture." -- Container.
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