Let’s admit right away that this third chapter in the Female Scorpion saga doesn’t contain that many prison scenes. Still, Sasori’s story is still compelling and you have a perfect preview of it in the first segment, when our heroine runs around a busy street with a severed policeman arm handcuffed to her wrist! She soon befriends a prostitute who’s pregnant by her cretin brother and some more juicy revenge will be on the menu.

Returning director Shunya Ito still got many visual tricks in his bag and screen goddess Meiko Kaji remains the ultimate anti-heroine… she even smiles in this episode! This film closes in a way that was not very hopeful for fans anticipating another sequel at the time… but a fourth film there was, Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701’s Grudge Song, with a new director in the person of Yasuharu Hasebe. That production will of course be our next subject.