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Shunya Ito’s incredible Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 is amongst Japan’s most famous ever cult films and the primary influence on Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. It remains one of the most sought after cult films in existence, with the deleted US DVD currently changing hands for large sums of money across the internet.

Recently publicised nationwide as the flagship film in the British Film Institute’s touring Wild Japan: Outlaw Masters Of Cinema programme, Eureka is proud to present this masterpiece for the first time ever on DVD or video in the UK.

A truly visionary, one of a kind experience, Female Convict Scorpion is an astoundingly visceral art house-feminist-exploitation hybrid featuring gorgeous Japanese cult icon Meiko Kaji. Shunya Ito’s movie unfolds in a state of perpetual delirium and is by turns shocking, perverse and hilarious. Beautiful, bold and outrageous entertainment, this is one of the most essential, exciting DVD releases of 2007…

REVIEWS:

“Visually and sonically stunning, this will delight devotees of Japanese horror.”
TIMEOUT, CRITICS CHOICE, November 2006

“Shunya Ito, like his protagonist, just will not be confined or restrained, making Jailhouse 41 as aesthetically striking and deliriously weird a Women In Prison pic as is ever likely to be made. Highly recommended.”
EYE FOR FILM

“Female Convict Scorpion is in every way an ambitious, audacious piece of work. It needs to be seen to be believed.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

“Certain acts of violence make the head spin, all the while the film unspools its relentless visual beauty.”
AUSTIN CHRONICLE

“The amazing photography and a narrative that borders on surrealism make Female Convict Scorpion a cinematic landscape that one will not soon forget.”
10,000 BULLETS

(This film is the sequel to the first in the series, Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, also currently available.)