Female Convict Scorpion: Grudge Song

Female Convict Scorpion:
Grudge Song

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe[1]
Written by Toru Shinohara (manga)
Starring Meiko Kaji
Masakazu Tamura
Music by Hajime Kaburagi
Cinematography Hanjiro Nakazawa
Edited by Tomio Fukuda
Distributed by Toei Company
Release dates
 December 29, 1973 (Japan)
Running time
 89 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Female Convict Scorpion: Grudge Song (女囚さそり　７０１号怨み節 Joshū Sasori - 701 Gō Urami Bushi) is a Women in prison film made by Toei Company in 1973. The fourth, and last in the first Female Convict Scorpion series, Meiko Kaji returned to play the title role, but director Shunya Ito was replaced by Yasuharu Hasebe.

Plot

Nami Matsushima is found in a wedding chapel by police led by detective Hirose. They handcuff her, but she is able to escape. Kudo, a worker in a sex show club, rescues her. He is a radical with a history of problems with the police. One of the women from the sex show, who had unsuccessfully tried to seduce Kudo, finds Nami's handcuffs in Kudo's things, and informs the police. The police arrest and beat Kudo and then release and tail him back to Nami's hiding place.

Nami is captured and sentenced to death. Just before her execution, Nami is allowed to escape by a warden who cooperating with the police to set up Nami. Nami is taken to a gallows outside the prison where Hirose plans to hang her. She beats Hirose and he ends up hanged instead of her. Nami kills Kudo.

Cast

Sequels

Director Yutaka Kohira revived the series for two more episodes in 1976 and 1977. Evil Dead Trap (1988) director, Toshiharu Ikeda filmed the original story again for V-Cinema in 1991.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Infobox data from Joshuu sasori: 701-gô urami-bushi (1973) at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ "女囚さそり　殺人予告 (Joshū sasori: Satsujin yokoku)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-12-02.

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