Female Prisoner Scorpion: 701's Grudge Song
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song 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.
Plot
Police led by Detective Hirose track down the escaped convict Nami Matsushima in a wedding chapel and handcuff her, but she is able to escape. She is rescued by Kudo, a worker in a sex show club and a former student radical with a history of problems with the police. Kudo provides Matsushima with shelter and food, and they later sleep together. Midori, a performer in the sex show who had unsuccessfully tried to seduce Kudo, finds Matsushima's handcuffs in Kudo's things and informs the police. The police arrest and beat Kudo, then release and tail him back to Matsushima's hiding place.Matsushima is captured and sentenced to death. Just before her execution, she is allowed to escape by a warden who is cooperating with the police to set her up. Matsushima 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. Matsushima returns to Kudo, whom she stabs to death as he embraces her. He asks her to forgive him as he dies. The freed Matsushima disappears into the city.
Cast
- Meiko Kaji as Nami Matsushima, the Scorpion
- Masakazu Tamura as Teruo Kudo
- Yumi Kanei as Kodama
- Hiroshi Tsukata as Hirose
- Yayoi Watanabe as Midori
- Sanae Nakahara as Akiko
- Akemi Negishi as Minamura