Vintage Pulp | Aug 25 2016 |
Way back in 2010 we shared a promo poster for Joshû 701-gô: Sasori, aka Female Convict 701: Scorpion, as part of a collection of promos from the entire Female Prisoner tetrology. If you click over to that group you'll see it right on top. The movie opened today in 1972 with Meiko Kaji in the lead as the iconic character Nami Matsushima, aka Matsu the Scorpion, and the posters above are the second and third we have for this fun movie. If you haven't seen it but appreciate a little Japanese style cinematic mayhem, we recommend you check it out.
Vintage Pulp | Nov 19 2010 |
Above, four posters for Meiko Kaji’s legendary Joshuu sasori series, known in English as Female Convict 701: Scorpion, Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable, and Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song, 1972 to 1973. We're actually missing posters in this series (there are two for most of the installments) but haven't come across them yet. We'll keep looking and tack them onto this post later if we find them (Update: check here, here, and here). In the meantime, if you haven't seen the Joshuu sasori flicks, we recommend them. They're seminal pinku productions, pretty much standard viewing for the genre. And below, Meiko rocks the all-corduroy look on a poster from the mid-seventies.