Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Grudge Song: Technical Notes

Video: This film is presented in it's original aspect ration of 2.35:1 and is enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs. The transfer sports fairly rich and robust color with a pretty decent level of both foreground and background detail save for a few scenes where the colors look just a little on the flat side and there are a few spots where the contrast looks to be set too high. There is some very minor print damage here and there and some line shimmering in a few scenes but neither of these faults prove to be over powering at all. Sharpness and detail is pleasing and contrast levels look to be set properly as well. Film grain is present but it's never overpowering and there's really little to complain about here in terms of how the movie looks on DVD.

Sound: Female Prisoner #701 - Scorpion – Grudge Song is presented in Dolby Digital Mono in its original Japanese language with nice, clear, easy to read English subtitles. The track is clean and free of any hiss or distortion and sounds about as good as mono is going to sound. Dialogue is clean and clear and the scores sound quite lively. In terms of the subtitles the phrasing is fine and there aren't any noticeable typographical errors to complain about. The film's score sounds nice, particularly the opening theme song, once again sung by Meiko Kaji herself.

Extras: Extra features on this release are pretty slim but we do get a trailer for the feature, trailers for four other Tokyo Shock releases (including Female Prisoner #701 - Scorpion – Beast Stable and Female Convict Scorpion – Prisoner #701, the first film in the series) and a modest still gallery. Menus and chapter stops are also included.

Final Thoughts: ...Media Blasters' disc is once again slim on extra features but the movie looks and sounds decent enough to earn a recommendation.