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#Beast Stable Is A Shockingly Timely Tale Of Female Vengeance

“Beast Stable Is A Shockingly Timely Tale Of Female Vengeance”

Maybe you haven’t heard, but it’s a nightmarish time to possess a uterus in the United States. The Supreme Court is looking to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending abortion protections nationwide and sending reproductive rights back to a more draconian era. The frequent discussions around abortion led me to thinking about the way its been depicted in movies, from the bittersweet scene in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” to the extremely graphic depiction in “Enter the Void.” Scorpion kept returning to the forefront of my thoughts, as she’s a flawed but fascinating figure of female vengeance. 

In the first two films, Nami gets revenge on those who hurt her personally, killing her rapists and those who enabled them. But in “Beast Stable,” Nami becomes a symbol of revenge for all women. She takes on multiple facets of the patriarchy, fighting against the police, the yakuza, and more, and she does it all with her trademark cool. There are few femme action heroes that rank among the likes of Charles Bronson in “Death Wish” or Clint Eastwood in the “Dollars” trilogy, but Kaji as Scorpion is absolutely up there. She’s beautiful, she’s badass, and she’s absolutely terrifying. 

“Beast Stable” is inspired by gothic horror, with deep shadows, rain-soaked streets, and a villain who keeps pet ravens. It’s still an exploitation film, so there’s a fair amount of bloody violence and nudity, but there’s something weirdly empowering in seeing Kaji slice her way through evil. The fact that the film doesn’t shy away from its abortion subplots is also oddly refreshing, though one of the procedures depicted is not medical and is extremely graphic. There’s a contrast between two women having abortions, highlighting the importance of choice: Yuki chooses to have an abortion when she realizes she is pregnant with her brother’s child, while another young sex worker is forced to have one by the crow-keeping madam so she can get back to serving customers. 

Yuki’s experience is sterile and cold, and we see her reconcile with her feelings, but it’s never depicted as traumatic, while the other young woman’s experience is deeply traumatic. Autonomy over one’s own body is everything, and it’s not difficult to see the similarities between forced abortions and the forced pregnancies people are now staring down in the U.S. It’s grisly stuff, and also a reminder of the differences between a sterile medical procedure and one performed elsewhere, as the young sex worker dies from internal bleeding. Outlawing abortions doesn’t make them go away; it just forces people toward risky home procedures that can lead to severe injury, infertility, and death. 

The “Female Prisoner Scorpion” films are problematic by their very nature as exploitation cinema, but they still have some fierce feminist ideas within them. Kaji’s Scorpion is an anti-hero for the ages, a wild woman forged by trauma and set on revenge — and we could all use a little of her fire. 

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