Joshû sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô (1972)'s comments

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In Jailhouse 41, the second film in the Female Prisoner #701 franchise, the "Scorpion" is back in jail and it's just as horrendously cruel as it was in the first (same warden, after all) and she gets violated again, necessitating some quality revenging. And I would say the set-up and the climax are of a piece with what we saw before and worth the watch. Unfortunately, the big middle of the film has the heroine escape with a sextet of inmates, each with their own story, which makes Scorpion feel like an observer. The lynch-pin of the situation, yes, and a dangerous observer who may turn on you, but still rather passive. And this one's almost too casually rapey. Director Ito pushes the limits of his visuals this time to phantasmagorical levels, as if to imply the Scorpion's madness through a kind of kabuki aesthetic. That's the thing about these movies - they're at once ugly and beautiful. The beauty wins out in the end, but I don't like this one as much as the first.

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