https://vo.rs/tags/meiko-kaji/Latest from the Meiko Kaji desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/female-prisoner-scorpion-the-pinku-revenge-landmark/<p>Toei handed Shunya Ito a genre assignment in 1972 and expected a cheap thriller. Women-in-prison pictures were a reliable earner for the studio&rsquo;s pinky-violence line, a run of tough exploitation films built on brawling, betrayal and a heroine who suffers before she strikes back. What Ito delivered instead was one of the strangest and most beautiful debut features of the decade, a film that keeps the disreputable machinery of the genre and pushes it toward the territory of myth. <em>Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion</em> is exploitation cinema that behaves like an art film when nobody at the box office was asking it to.</p>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000