Whoever landed Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion (Meiko Kaji) in jail will pay a mighty price once she gets out. But first, she must learn how to survive within prison walls, or else she’ll be destroyed. And when freedom finally arrives, the mysterious nemesis who sent her away will finally get his comeuppance. Title Prisoner 701: Scorpion Year 1972 Country Japan …
Female Prisoner 701: Grudge Song
After a lover’s betrayal sends her to prison, Nami Matsushima (Meiko Kaji) — known by her fellow inmates as the Scorpion — escapes and seeks shelter with an old friend who works in the red-light district. But plotting her revenge inside a strip club has a way of making Nami wonder whether she can ever trust a man again. Yasuharu …
Female Prisoner 701: Beast Stable
In this third installment of famed Japanese director Shunya Ito’s Scorpion series, escaped prisoner Scorpion (Meiko Kaji) is hiding out in a brothel. But her refuge becomes a chamber of horrors when the madam discovers that Scorpion’s ex-boyfriend is the same police officer who killed the madam’s Yakuza lover. The vengeful bordello owner calls in underworld thugs, who torture Scorpion …
Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41
An absolute phenomenal surrealist-cum-exploitation picture, FEMALE CONVICT SCORPION: JAILHOUSE 41 is the second in a series of films about Matsu (known to her fellow inmates as “Scorpion”), a diminutive but volatile woman who is wrongly sent to prison by a betraying boyfriend. Incredibly satisfying and spectacularly photographed, these women’s prison pictures feature an anti-heroine who is beautiful, strong, principled and …
Encounter of the Spooky Kind
Master Tam is sleeping with the wife of Courageous Cheung (Sammo Hung) and enlists a Taoist priest (Chan Lung) to kill him. Cheung assumes it’s a simple test of bravery. But as he goes up against terrifying feats of black magic — including hopping vampires and possessed puppets — he realizes he’ll need his brother’s supernatural skills. Hung also directs …
Duel To The Death
The best swordsmen of China and Japan have made it a historical ritual to meet every 10 years for a showdown of fighting skills and powers. The leading fighter of the Japanese ninjas, Hashimoto (Tsui Siu Keung) and the Chinese chief Ching Wan (Damian Lau) have come to respect each other after years of competition – but tradition demands that …
Death Note
Death-god Ryuk leaves his killing instrument, the Death Note, in the mortal world just to see what will happen. This notebook clearly states that any person’s name written in it shall die. Law student, “Light Yagami” accidentally picks up this notebook. After reading the directions on how to use the book he takes it upon himself of ridding criminal elements …
City Hunter
Jackie Chan stars as Ayu Saeba in this hilarious, lightning-paced tribute to the ass-kicking, girl-chasing detective from the popular Magna strip “City Hunter”. Filled with highly stylized and vibrating colored visuals, and many of Hong Kong’s most beautiful women, “City Hunter” has won the hearts of fans all over the world with its infectious humor and brilliantly conceived fight sequences, …
Cello
After surviving a terrifying car wreck that killed her best friend, Mi-ju, a brilliant cellist, longs for a peaceful and stable life as a music teacher at a local college. But when horrifying memories of the accident begin to surface, her tranquil life quickly becomes a nightmare. A supernatural evil seeks revenge against her and her family, and until she …
Armageddon
The world’s 10 most influential scientists are being mysteriously killed one by one (via spontaneous combustion, lethal microwaves and other strange causes). One of the scientists, software prodigy Dr. Ken (Andy Lau), searches for clues to these bizarre deaths, only to see his fiancée apparently return from the dead. All indications point to the end of the world, and Dr. …