Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 | DevlinDoesDrawing

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From the 2nd film in the Scorpion series, and my personal favourite, comes this homage to Shunya Itō’s ferocious phantasmagoria, again starring Meiko Kaji as the near-silent spectre of revenge, Sasori/Scorpion.
Reflecting the visual changes from the previous film, the confined frame shape and limited colour pallette has been broken. In the lower third, a temporarily defeated Nami Matsushima is towered over by the heinous warden and his sadistic guards, before leading the breakout that we see depicted above the title, leading to the surreal image of Nami raising an enchanted blade in a visually stunning forest sequence. The oil-slick colour scheme was inspired by the heavy use of coloured lights throughout – the cold blues of the prison basement, the sickly greens of the pale moonlight, the acidy pinks and purples of the forest sequence, and the autumnal oranges of the dead leaves. The blood red text of the title, and its huge placement, reflecting the bold and splashy title sequences each film has.

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