Scorpion - Sasori 701
Director: Ryoji Niimura
Year: 1998
Rating:
5.0
Well, it isn't
Meiko Kaji but it is Prisoner 701 Sasori. I take what I can get though I
really need to re-watch the originals. It has been decades. By the way, over
4-hours of Meiko's music is up on YouTube. A pair of these Sasori films were
released in 1998 straight to video starring Chiharu Komatsu as Nami Matsushima
- same name that Meiko had in the series. While Meiko played her character
like a smoldering sharp knife with a glare that kills, Chiharu is more like
the girl you want to bring home to your parents. Cute, soft and sweet. Till
she finds the man who killed her sister. Low budget and mainly a female prison
film and all that entails - cruelty, beatings, lesbianism and prison breaks.
It held my attention but barely.
Nami is a doctor but she has continuous
flashbacks to when she was a young girl and her younger sister was kidnapped
by two men in a car. Her body is later found. She has blamed herself all
these years. And so when a man shows up on her operating table that she recognizes
as one of the kidnappers, you know his recovery will not go well. Like about
20 stabs to his gut but he really shouldn't have laughed about killing her
sister. But before he dies, he says it was the other guy who killed her.
The one-armed man! Wonder where that idea came from.
She is sentenced to ten years and gets the
usual warm welcome from her cellmates - a beating - and cutting grass in
the daytime. She makes a friend who is on death row - this friend was framed
by a top politician for his murdering her friend - but there is a tape of
it that she has hidden. Nami has a plan for them both to escape and get justice
for her friend and to look for that one-armed man before Richard Kimball
finds him. I thought I had the sequel but it turned out not to have subs.
