| Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song | |
| Director: | Yasuharu Hasebe[1] |
| Starring: | Meiko Kaji Masakazu Tamura |
| Music: | Hajime Kaburagi |
| Cinematography: | Hanjiro Nakazawa |
| Editing: | Tomio Fukuda |
| Distributor: | Toei Company |
| Runtime: | 89 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
is a women in prison film made by Toei Company in 1973. The fourth, and last in the first Female Prisoner Scorpion series, Meiko Kaji returned to play the title role, but director Shunya Itō was replaced by Yasuharu Hasebe.
Nami Matsushima is found in a wedding chapel by police led by detective Hirose. They handcuff her, but she is able to escape. Kudo, a worker in a sex show club, rescues her. He is a radical with a history of problems with the police. One of the women from the sex show, who had unsuccessfully tried to seduce Kudo, finds Nami's handcuffs in Kudo's things, and informs the police. The police arrest and beat Kudo and then release and tail him back to Nami's hiding place.
Nami is captured and sentenced to death. Just before her execution, Nami is allowed to escape by a warden who cooperating with the police to set up Nami. Nami is taken to a gallows outside the prison where Hirose plans to hang her. She beats Hirose and he ends up hanged instead of her. Nami kills Kudo.[2]
Director Yutaka Kohira revived the series for two more episodes in 1976 and 1977. Evil Dead Trap (1988) director, Toshiharu Ikeda filmed the original story again for V-Cinema in 1991.[5]
. Shunya Ito. 2006. Female prisoner #701 Scorpion Collection. Tokyo Shock. Japanese, English. 1-59883-090-2.