Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya (1973)

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Siskoid
With Beast Stable, Ito directs a Female Prisoner #701 film that is stylish, but not stylized the way the first two were. I was expecting to check and find a completely different director at the helm. But it still works. Different sexual abuse, different cages, and the Scorpion out in the real world, a fugitive from justice, who chooses to avenge wrongs done to other women. Yuki, the inmate she was protecting in the first film, returns, in tragic circumstances. Our hearts go out to her. The villain is also a former inmate, though I don't believe we saw her in the other films. In fact, I feel like the villains are a little on the weak side, and when they get their just desserts, I'm not always sure what their role was supposed to be in the crimes avenged. Except for the one-armed man (also the focus of a brilliant opener, apparently shot in a crowd that didn't know what was happening) and the evil madam, and from the sequence in the storm drains to the end, it's delicious and yes, a little artier, stuff. Beast Stable had me worried, but its third act really brought it home. 3 years 4 months ago
demagogo
Someone please put the AKAs, it's kinda confusing finding the Meiko Kaji's Sasori films when there are a lot of films with almost the same Japanese name. 7 years 8 months ago
snag
AKA Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable 9 years 11 months ago