Lady Snowblood (Shurayuki-hime) first published by Little White Lies, September 2012 In 1873, just outside Koichi village, a young teacher and his son are brutally slain by a gang of four scam artists plotting to exploit for profit the locals’ fear of a newly imposed national military draft. Gang-raped over several days, the teacher’s wife…
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable first published by Film International If ever proof were needed that genre is what you make of it, then one only need look to Japan’s cinema of the 1970s, where the lowest of exploitation subgenres were being approached with the highest of artistic sensibilities, disinterring unexpectedly exquisite treasures from the…
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 first published by EyeforFilm The women-in-prison (or WIP) film has a long and sordid history as one of exploitation cinema’s more unsavoury subgenres. So at first glance, Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, with its badass inmates, its sadistic guards, and its girl-on-girl action (in every sense), ought to be dismissible as…