Female Convict Scorpion - Jailhouse 41 [1972]
DVD movie

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...