#is it blood stained tho i cant see sklfm

[marypickfords]

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Shunya Ito, 1972)

“These women captives, while remaining complicated and sometimes downright villainous, are ultimately bound together by a gendered understanding of how they are treated by the world. In the sequel, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, Scorpion passes a blood stained knife to a woman and she in turn passes it on to someone else, like a family heirloom, embodying the power of sisterhood that W.i.P cinema can posses if wielded correctly. [...] Meiko Kaji's determined glare and her castrating reaper made sure genre cinema would never be the same again. With the prowess of her mere sight, Kaji granted a space where women could control the image and push back at cinema's longstanding poisonous gaze.” (x)