

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 1972
Directed by Shunya Ito
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- 90 min
- NR
Slicing up the patriarchy since 1972.
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
- Sexual violence
- Graphic violence
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Grave, unpretentious, bleak and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Meiko KajiNami Matsushima
- Fumio WatanabeInspector Goda
- Kayoko ShiraishiOba
- Yuki AresaKimiyo Oikawa
- Hiroko IsayamaAsako Noda
- Yukie KagawaHaru
- Hōsei KomatsuTsuji
- Gōzō SōmaPoliceman
- Eiko YanamiHarue Wagatsuma
- Kuniko IshiiRose Miyako
Crew
- Shunya ItoDirector
- Fumio KōnamiScreenplay
- Hirō MatsudaScreenplay
- Shunya ItoScreenplay
- Masao ShimizuDirector of Photography
- Shunsuke KikuchiOriginal Music Composer
- Osamu TanakaEditor
- Kineo YoshimineProducer
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