Japanese Title: Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya
Director: Shunya Ito

This film is the third movie in the Female Prisoner Scorpion series and though there was one official sequel and several unofficial sequels (all of which should be avoided like the plague from what I hear), it's pretty much the conclusion to the series as well. It's also the last film in the series directed by maverick Shunya Ito. Meiko Kaji stars as the silent, unblinking Nami Matsushima, a incredibly badass, unblinking woman who was betrayed and imprisoned. In this film, after breaking out of jail and killing the sadistic warden in the previous film, she's on the run from a police inspector (played by frequent Kinji Fukasaku collaborator Mikio Narita). She befriends a prostitute and attempts to make a living for herself, but when a woman is given a forced abortion by some nasty yakuza, she gets medieval on the crooks.

©Jules Carrozza courtesy Cinematic Damnation