Sasori - Jailhouse 41
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| German title | Sasori - Jailhouse 41 |
| Original title | 女囚 さ そ り 第 41 雑 居 房 Joshū sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bō |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 ( SPIO / JK ) |
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| Director | Shun'ya Ito |
| script | Shun'ya Itō, Fumio Konami , Hirō Matsuda |
| music | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| camera | Masao Shimizu |
| cut | Osamu Tanaka |
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Sasori - Jailhouse 41 ( jap. 女囚さそり第41雑居房 , Joshu Sasori: Dai-41 bō Zakkyo- ., Dt "female prisoner Scorpio: 41. communal cell") is a Japanese film by director Shunya Itō from 1972 and after Sasori - Scorpion the second part of a six-part film series based on the successful manga by Tōru Shinohara . The film with Meiko Kaji in the lead role is a genre- typical Japanese exploitation film ( Pink Eiga , which has the typical features of a women's prison film; in the English "Women in prison film" (WIP), for example humiliation, sadistic guards, rape and brutal murders) .
In terms of content, the sequel ties in with the first part, which deals with Sasori's revenge, while the second part is about Sasori's escape and six other women from prison. For the “Nippon Classics” series, the first two parts of the Sasori series for the German-speaking market were dubbed by Rapid Eye Movies (rem) and offered on DVD for purchase in 2006. The following sequels are only delivered with German subtitles.
action
Nami Matsushima, who is called "Sasori" - the scorpion by her fellow inmates - is tied up on the floor of a cold and dark solitary cell at the beginning of the film. Due to the forthcoming visit of Minister of Justice and the transfer of the prison director Goda to the Ministry of Tokyo it is for the festivities from her lasting over a year incommunicado released. Sasori uses this opportunity to attack the sadistic director, who blames her for the loss of his right eye as well as for the general unrest in his detention center, with a weapon he had previously made himself. The justice minister, who is trying to rehabilitate , is visibly shocked by the potential danger that Sasori and the other prisoners pose. A small revolt ensues, but the guards quickly bring it under control. Because of the incident, the still incumbent prison director orders draconian collective punishments - the women are used for labor in the quarry .
Goda fears that Sasori's rebellious behavior could incite the other prisoners to revolt again, since the silent prisoner endures all physical labor to punish her. Therefore, after unsuccessful forced labor, he orders the public rape by four of his men in order to break their will and humiliate them in front of all other women. On the way back from the quarry to the prison, the shackled Sasori is mistreated in the transporter by six female prisoners and found dead after minutes of torture. The transport of prisoners then stops and Sasori is inspected by the passenger, who previously attacked her. Sasori succeeds in overpowering her tormentor and finally kills him. The same fate happens to the driver of the van, who is killed by Oba.
On the run from Goda's captors, the seven women flee through a barren landscape until they find refuge in an abandoned settlement. Oba, who reveals herself as a child murderer twice, as well as the other women are described by the text of a song - they all have in common the brutality and the contempt for Sasori. On their further journey, they come to the edge of a city, but hesitate to enter, as they could cause a stir with their prison clothes. They decide to stay in a remote hut until dawn, but one of the women soon leaves the group to visit her son who lives in the city. However, she is received by two prison guards and forced to cooperate with the authorities. While one of the guards communicates the exact location to his superiors, the other guard is led by the prisoner to the hut on the outskirts, where Sasori is already receiving him. The supervisor manages to start a little fight that injures Haru - one of the seven women fleeing - fatally and ultimately costs him his life. On their further escape, the other women soon take control of a tour bus with mostly male tourists as hostages , after three men from that group raped a prisoner and then killed them. They continued their escape by coach when they came to a police roadblock. Sasori is thrown from the moving bus to distract Oba and the other women, who can easily be overpowered and arrested by the security forces while the bus passes the checkpoint unhindered.
When the bus with the hostages breaks through another roadblock and some time later collides with the wall of a building, Goda, who has meanwhile surrounded the bus with police units, orders Sasori to be brought to the remaining female hostages. They fear a secret agreement between her and the director and refuse to work together, whereupon the visibly disappointed Sasori, speaking for the first time in the film, asks Oba: "How could you do that?" Thereupon the avenger turns away from the encircled coach and goes to Goda, to whom she replies to the question of whether the hostages are still alive with "They are all dead!" The police then storm the bus and accidentally shoot three hostages who are still alive, as well as all the hostage-takers with the exception of Oba, who is merely wounded and trapped in a van with Sasori. Goda, who has faced several scandals and misjudgments since the outbreak, orders two of his followers, Okizaki and Furuya, to kill Sasori on the way to prison. But this plan fails and Sasori is able to shoot the two guards at a landfill with the help of Oba, who later dies of her wounds .
As a black-clad avenger, Sasori stabs Goda, the new head of the Tokyo Justice Department, to death at the end of the film.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the second part of the 'Sasori' series was an “allegorically inflated women's prison film with an almost apocalyptic outcome, which comes up with an excess of sex and violence” . The film is also "exploitation on a visually high level with disturbing images."
Web links
- Sasori - Jailhouse 41 on the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sasori - Jailhouse 41 in the online movie database