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{{quote|"To be deceived is...a woman's crime"
|'''Nami Matsushima''', ''Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion''}}
The '''''Female Prisoner Scorpion''''' (Japanese: ''Joshuu Sasori'') series are [[Girls Behind Bars|women in prison]] films (suprise!) from Japan's [[Toei]] Studio. The first was director Shunya Itou's debut in 1972, and he also directed the second and third; the first four star Meiko Kaji in the title role. Several different lead actresses, reboots and plotlines, not necessarily anything to do with each other, followed her departure. They originate from a manga series begun in 1970 by Touru Shinohara.
Unlike the vast majority of women's prison films, though, they don't exist as [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|an excuse for porn]]; well, not exactly. While they lie squarely in the Pinky Violence genre, meaning there's [[Fan Service|plenty of sex]], violence and exploitation, they are also intermittently surreal, intelligently shot/directed and feminist in message. It's as if Shunya Itō, nowadays known as an arthouse director, was handed the script for something [[Porn with Plot|much more conventional]] and decided to see how far he could subvert it without actually changing the story.
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* ''Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion'' (1972)
* ''Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41'' (1972)
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* ''Sasori'' (2008)
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▲* [[Anti-Hero|Antiheroine]]: Matsu - a type IV or V. While it's hard not to sympathise with her, she is undeniably merciless, and some of what she does is pure vindictiveness. Although never explicitly stated, she seems to have a code of conduct: help her and she'll help you, mess with her and watch your back, betray her trust and ''you're going down''.
** Assuming the viewer sympathises with the convicts, then Oba, from ''Jailhouse 41'', can also count, although she [[Card-Carrying Villain|paints herself]] as a [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Beware the Quiet Ones]]: A central facet of Matsu's character. She'll silently endure whatever hellish mistreatment gets thrown her way, but if she gets an opportunity to exact revenge, she will take it, and those who mistreated her will have hell to pay.
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