Hong Kong Sasori is a Hong Kong–Japan co-production — one of only a handful of such cross-border film titles indexed here.
Synopsis
さそり
“Jailed for a crime she was forced to commit. Punished in a place where no-one survives. Until now…”
A ruthless pack of thugs force mild-mannered, caught-in-the-middle-of-something-bigger Nami to murder her fiance's sister, decidedly ruining her pending marriage and landing the poor girl in the most brutal women's prison ever seen. Inside the hellblocks, she decides to stop being a victim at all costs, and ends up becoming stronger and even more vicious than the craziest inmates in the pen. She eventually escapes in a most unusual way, gets valuable fight training from a mysterious mountain man and returns to the streets in order to make the thugs who ruined her life pay.
Hong Kong × Japan Co-Production
Other Hong Kong×Japan titles
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Sasori. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Art Port
Action + Adventure in Hong Kong
81 Hong Kong titles in our catalog blend the Action and Adventure genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Sasori itself).
The 2008–2010 Hong Kong Window
In the crowded 2008-2010 Hong Kong release window, Sasori sits at #48 of 55. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
The 2000s Hong Kong Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Hong Kong, 146 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Sasori premiered alongside 17 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 17 other Hong Kong films in 2009.
The 640th Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).
Audience Engagement
12 audience reviews — more than 18% of Hong Kong films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 1th percentile among Hong Kong films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Sasori, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- katana sword · 5
- women fight · 3
- samurai sword · 16
- women's prison · 7
- revenge · 210
- sword fight · 56
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #792 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (5th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -1.4 points below the Hong Kong average of 6.3/10.
Among Hong Kong Action productions specifically: #500 of 516 (top 97%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Hong Kong, Japan |
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Art Port |
| Runtime | 1h 41m |
| Release Date | August 8, 2009 |
| IMDb | tt1135983 |