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1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2	** The featured song across the series, ''Urami Bushi'', features unusually visceral lyrics, sung with very emotional (that is, angry and bitter) intonation. The best thing, though, is that they're sung by Meiko Kaji herself, who is to this day a well-regarded Enka singer in addition to her acting career. Nothing like the personal touch.
3	** The synthesizer stings that play when the elevator doors open to reveal Sasori near the end of the first picture are some of the most effective musical storytelling you're going to find.
4	* MagnificentBitch:
5	** Nami "Matsu" Matsushima is a woman betrayed by her true love, a police detective named Sugimi. Sent in as bait for drug dealers, Nami was violently raped and sent to prison when she attacked Sugimi for it. Throughout the series, Nami is tormented by other inmates, lecherous guards, and a broken system, but remains unbroken the entire time while playing her enemies and allies against once another. Nami forms alliances, always repaying those who deal fairly with her, while brutally punishing those who do not. At the end of the first film, Nami manages to track down Sugimi and murders him, spending the rest of the series constantly playing and destroying those who get in her path.
6	** ''Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion'': Otsuka is a prisoner who assists Nami in her escape after she saved her from potential punishment. With a keen intellect that matches Nami’s own, Otsuka prevents Katagiri from assassinating Nami, and during a riot that sees Katagiri lead the torture of Nami by the prisoners, Otsuka frames Katagiri for supposedly trying to burn everybody alive to ensure Nami’s livelihood. Creating a massive distraction for Nami’s escape, Otsuka allows her to leave while she stays behind, ensuring her legacy as Nami’s most helpful ally.
7	* QuirkyWork: The hallmark of the series is its combination of this unexpectedly savage version of the subject matter with repeated recourse to out-of-left-field surrealism.
8	** The first film's stageplay-like origin story flashback is the first instance of this, with echoes all through the film, created by unexpected coloured spotlighting.
9	** However, ''Jailhouse 41'' kicks it into overdrive, with a kabuki-like segment and a scene where a bus becomes a courtroom, and the imposition of the surreal onto the real, like the witch, the waterfall or the ending.
10	** After this, the surrealism quotient drops considerably, but there are still elements of it in ''Beast Stable'''s sewer scenes, sound editing and the music-synched stopmotion effect in the bar scene.

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