Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) Rating: Starring: Meiko Kaji, Hiroko Isayama, Kayoko Shiraishi, Fumio Watanbe Director: Shunya Ho Category: Drama, Foreign Studio: Image Ent. Subtitles: English Length: 89 mins     An absolutely phenomenal surrealist-cum-exploitation picture, Female Convict Scorpion - Jailhouse 41 is the second in a series of films about Matsu (known to her fellow inmates as "Scorpion"), a diminutive but volatile woman who is wrongly sent to prison by a betraying boyfriend.Incredibly satisfying and spectacularly photographed, these women's prison pictures feature an anti-heroine who is beautiful, strong, principled and basically honorable and decent -- especially when compared to everyone around her. One of the truly genuine masterpieces of violent 1970s cinema, Female Convict Scorpion- Jailhouse 41 is, in its own way, as subversive as Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg's Performance, John Boorman's Point Blank and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend.