Sasori: Korosu tenshi

I found the first Scorpion to be the perfect mst3k movie. That is, its great to make fun of. But Scorpion 2 almost feels like its trying to be a good movie, and instead becomes a below average boring movie that isn't worth watching or possible to laugh at. I liked the ridiculously fake prison beatings of the first film, but here the fighting looks real, which would be great if this was a GOOD film. There is still plenty of prison nudity, but the convoluted plot makes you not even care. There is one big laugh, and that is the final scene on the bridge. I honestly can't recommend this, unless you are a hardcore fan of the first movie (I doubt there are any) and absolutely must know how it ends.

Scorpion, part II (1998) finds Lady Scorpion on the lam. She has a new identity and a new life but she wont give up until she finds out who killed her younger sister. The young lady decides to break into prison to find out some more information. Not just any prison mind you but the very one she just escaped from! She either crazy or stupid (I take a little from column A and a little from column B). Will she finds the answers to her past and will she find closure? Can Lady Scorpion bring the killer or killers back to justice? Is there or isn't their a one armed man? You'll have to find out for yourself. I wont say anymore but it's a real hoot when you find out.

Not as great as part one but it's still entertaining. You can find both films one one disc. What are you waiting for? Go out and get it! Unrated but it has a lot of blood, gore and nudity.

Strongly recommended.

Nami Matsushima has escaped from the prison to which she was sentenced in Scorpion, but is now obsessed with tracking down the--don't laugh--one-armed man who murdered her younger sister fifteen years ago. Nami is certainly no great action heroine, and the plot at times makes little sense, climaxing with a coincidence more ridiculous than any Shakespeare ever used. For complicated reasons, Nami uses her medical knowledge to break into a women's prison as staff physician. There, as in the previous movie, the convicts wind up naked awfully frequently.

The rather inept Nami, by the way, is never referred to as Scorpion within the movie; this appellation may be an attempt to evoke a more acclaimed Japanese caged-woman movie from the past, Female Convict Scorpion, to which this movie is, however, unrelated.

Pleasant time-waster if you go in for this sort of thing.