The Japan Society's film series on transgressive female actors.

Friday: 6:30pm, Seisaku's Wife . Dir. Yasuzo Masumura. Wakao stars as a nurse sent to Manchuria during the Sino-Japanese War who fights off the advances of the soldiers she's meant to help and becomes the dependent of an impotent surgeon.

Friday: 8:30pm, A Wife Confesses . Dir. Yasuzo Masumura. Wakao plays a widow who may or may not have killed her husband in a mountaineering accident.

Saturday: 3:00pm, Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion . Dir. Shunya Ito. Kaji plays Scorpion, a female prisoner out for vengeance against a former boyfriend and anyone else who stands in her way.

Saturday: 5:00pm, Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter . Dir. Yasuharu Hasebe. Kaji is the Molotov cocktail- wielding leader of a girl gang who falls for a mixed-race rival and stirs up trouble.

Sunday: 5:00pm, Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41 . Dir. Shunya Ito. Female Prisoner 701 (Kaji) returns. She escapes from prison only to wind up in a ghost town with several other inmates.