Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat (1991) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1991 · 93 mins · Japanese

Directed by

Toshiharu Ikeda

Starring

Junko Miyashita, Natsuki Okamoto, Minori Terada, Hiroshi Shimizu, Shinzō Hotta, Kaoru Matsumoto

Disguised as a beggar, a deadly assassin is hired by a vindictive warden to infiltrate a women’s prison and confront the inmate who blinded him. The target is Nami Matsushima, a feared prisoner known as “Scorpion,” who wields a wooden spoon fashioned from a knife as her signature weapon.