Sasori is on the run from prison for murder. As Sasori hides in a graveyard, she encounters a hooker who lives with her brain-damaged brother and who attends to his every need. Sasori ends up living with them in their slum shack. As her posters are all over Tokyo it’s only a matter of time before somebody spots her and the local yakuza take her prisoner. But this being Sasori she doesn’t take to being a prisoner very well. Her revenge will be brutal once she’s free.
Beast Stable has one of the best openings to an Asian movie I’ve ever seen. Sasori is on the Tokyo subway when 2 undercover cops find her. She slashes one of them in the neck and when she tries to go off the train at the station and the 2nd cop handcuffs her arm to his own what does she do – only cuts the guy’s arm off with a knife so she can escape before running around Tokyo’s streets with a severed arm attached to her much to the chagrin of the general public!
The third in the Scorpion series is definitely slower in pace than the first two, that is until the final 3rd of the movie. What can you say about Meiko Kaji that hasn’t been said before – she’s brilliant as the anti-heroine.
Sadako’s Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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