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• Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection | Blu Ray | (08/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring the iconic and beautiful Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Stray Cat Rock) in a role that came to define her career, the four-film Female Prisoner Scorpion series charts the vengeance of Nami Matsushima, who assumes the mantle of Scorpion, becoming an avatar of vengeance and survival, and an unlikely symbol of female resistance in a male-dominated world. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion introduces Nami, a gullible young woman unjustly imprisoned, who must find a way to escape in order to exact revenge upon the man who betrayed her. The visually avant-garde Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 sees director Shunya Ito and star Meiko Kaji re-unite as Nami and six other female convicts escape prison once more. The Gothic horror-inspired Beast Stable finds Nami branded public enemy #1 and on the run. She soon finds refuge with a sympathetic prostitute, but runs afoul of a local gang. The final film in the series, #701²s Grudge Song (from director Yasuharu Hasebe, Retaliation, Massacre Gun), shows a gentler side of Nami as she falls in with Kudo, an ex-radical suffering from physical and psychological trauma caused by police torture. Spiritual kin to Ms. 45, Coffy and The Bride Wore Black, the Female Prisoner Scorpion is the pinnacle of early 1970s exploitation cinema from Japanese grindhouse studio Toei, and one of the greatest female revenge sagas ever told. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Limited Edition Blu-ray collection (3000 copies) Brand new 2K restorations of all four films in the series presented on High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD Original mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays) for all films Optional English subtitles for all films Double-sided fold out poster of two original artworks Reversible sleeves for all films featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ian MacEwan Booklet featuring an extract from Unchained Melody: The Films of Meiko Kaji, an upcoming book on the starby critic and author Tom Mes, an archive interview with Meiko Kaji, and a brand new interview with Toru Shinohara, creator of the original Female Prisoner Scorpion manga FEMALE PRISONER #701: SCORPION Newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Gareth Evans (The Raid) Archive interview with director Shunya Ito New interview with assistant director Yutaka Kohira Theatrical Trailers for all films in the series FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: JAILHOUSE 41 Newly filmed appreciation by critic Kier-La Janisse Japanese cinema critic Jasper Sharp looks over the career of Shunya Ito New interview with production designer Tadayuki Kuwana Original Theatrical Trailer FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: BEAST STABLE Newly filmed appreciation by critic Kat Ellinger Archive interview with director Shunya Ito New visual essay on the career of star and icon Meiko Kaji by critic Tom Mes Original Theatrical Trailer FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: #701's GRUDGE SONG Newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Kichiku: Banquet of the Beasts) Archive interview with director Yasuharu Hasebe Japanese cinema critic Jasper Sharp looks over the career of Yasuharu Hasebe Visual essay on the Scorpion series by critic Tom Mes Original Theatrical Trailer

• Female Prisoner No. 701 - Scorpion | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Shunya Ito makes his directorial debut in this highly entertaining and stunning revenge and action thriller film that inspired Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion is an amphetamine-fuelled descent into the humid cells of a women's lock-up. High-pulse nymphomania bone-shattering violence and a gruesomely gynaecological approach to torture rear their collective heads in the work yard in the cafeteria and in the showers. Stunning Japanese cult icon Meiko (Lady Snowblood) Kaji delivers a blistering performance of breathtaking intensity in one of the most stylish and sophisticated exploitation movies of all time. Get ready for a ferocious cult classic - visually beautiful brutal controversial entertainment straight from the wild side of Japanese cinema.

• Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An avenging angel... or a seductive siren? Conceive of her as you like - either way she walks alone this woman wronged by the world... this Scorpion with a taste for vengeance! Meiko Kaji (femme fatale extraordinaire of the Stray Cat Rock and Lady Snowblood series) returns as Female Prisoner #701 - now escaped from the very authority that would grind her down. With one severed arm dangling from one handcuffed wrist Kaji takes refuge in the home of a kindred soul... a latchkey slut in want of all the world's sympathy... forced into a back-alley living for the sake of supporting her retarded brother... whose baby grows ever quick in her womb - oh life! No it's not long until old enemies rearrive new adversaries are inaugurated... and this waking nightmare gives way to a new dawn... soiled by indiscriminate abortion! This third instalment of the Female Prisoner series is perhaps also the finest and in its concise layout it represents both a fitting conclusion to the Scorpion story as directed by Shunya It and a stand-alone work requiring no familiarity with the preceding episodes. Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable exemplifies the grindhouse ethos in its haunting depiction of beauty...