the original female convict scorpion be an all time masterpiece . the first sequel and jailhouse 41 and be not quite as good in my opinion and though it still notable for the fact that it take the idea from the original and create something in a completely different style . director shunya ito have manage to do the same thing again with this film while the story be a bit different here and but still he manage to take what make the previous entry excellent and good than many film of this type and craft something fairly original around it . again the action focus on nami matsushima ( a. k. a. scorpion ) and this time she out of the jailhouse and not too keen on the idea of go back . after escape from pursue police officer and one thing lead to another and scorpion find herself get it together with a prostitute and her retarded brother . the prostitute end up get impregnate by the retarded brother ( . ) and while scorpion be kidnap and cage up by someone who she make an enemy out of in prison . but scorpion doesn not like spending time behind bar and it not long before she back to do what she do best . the film get off to a great start a we see scorpion hack the arm off a copper intent on take her back to jail . from there and however and the film slow down a lot and beast stable end up be more of a drama than the previous two film . that not to say that there isn not still plenty of action scorpion still spend a lot of time in revenge mode and the film isn not exactly short on general sleaze . meiko kaji once again reprise her role a the sinister title character and it another understated and almost wordless performance . her screen presence be great and however and she manage to have a menacing presence despite be only small physically . the plot structure for this film be similar to the other two in that it all build into a crescendo of revenge . there be more people who have anger scorpion in this film than in the previous two so this section take up a fairly large part of the film . there a few surreal sequence and not as many a in the first film and nowhere near a in the second and but the film stay in with the rest of the series on that point . overall and i would say this film be between the first two in term of quality not as great a the original and slightly good than the second .