Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Pinku Revenge Landmark

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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’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. Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion is exploitation cinema that behaves like an art film when nobody at the box office was asking it to.

School of the Holy Beast: Nunsploitation With a Real Argument

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Nunsploitation is the sub-genre most people are happiest to dismiss unseen, and usually they are right to. A convent, a novice, a sadistic Mother Superior, a great deal of suffering photographed with more relish than conscience — the formula ran through European exploitation cinema in the 1970s producing mostly junk. School of the Holy Beast, the 1974 Japanese entry from director Norifumi Suzuki, is the film that makes the category worth taking seriously. It is lush, blasphemous and frequently punishing, and underneath the provocation sits a genuine, sustained argument about institutional cruelty and religious hypocrisy. The provocation is the delivery system for the argument.

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Pinku Revenge Landmark

School of the Holy Beast: Nunsploitation With a Real Argument