FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: #701'S GRUDGE SONG

Police led by Detective Hirose track down the escaped convict Nami Matsushima in a wedding chapel and handcuff her, but she is able to escape. She is rescued by Kudo, a worker in a sex show club and a former student radical with a history of problems with the police. Kudo provides Matsushima with shelter and food, and they later sleep together. Midori, a performer in the sex show who had unsuccessfully tried to seduce Kudo, finds Matsushima's handcuffs in Kudo's things and informs the police. The police arrest and beat Kudo, then release and tail him back to Matsushima's hiding place.

Matsushima is captured and sentenced to death. Just before her execution, she is allowed to escape by a warden who is cooperating with the police to set her up. Matsushima is taken to a gallows outside the prison where Hirose plans to hang her. She beats Hirose and he ends up hanged instead of her. Matsushima returns to Kudo, whom she stabs to death as he embraces her. He asks her to forgive him as he dies. The freed Matsushima disappears into the city.

Matsushima turns the tables at the gallows, killing Detective Hirose, then fatally stabs Kudo before disappearing into the city.

The ending reaffirms Nami Matsushima’s status as a lone survivor in a world of constant betrayal and violence. By escaping execution and dispatching both her pursuer and her compromised ally, she asserts her autonomy—though at the cost of any personal connection. The film closes with her disappearance, underscoring the cycle of vengeance and isolation that defines her journey.