Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
The Nickel Cinema117-119 Clerkenwell Road, London
Tue 6 Oct · 18:30
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Betrayed by the corrupt narcotics officer she loved and brutalised inside a women’s prison, Nami Matsushima survives by becoming something colder, quieter and infinitely more dangerous: Scorpion. Her captors can humiliate her, starve her and bury her underground - but they cannot extinguish her appetite for revenge. Meiko Kaji’s implacable stare anchors Shunya Itō’s explosive first Scorpion film, a ferocious pulp nightmare transformed by pop-art colour, expressionist sets and eruptions of surreal violence.
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