Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld cover art

Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld Details

1973 Certificate 18
  • Rated:
  • 60
  • from 910 members

Two features. During 1874 a child is born to Sayo, a woman held in prison for murder, her name is Yuki Kashima, or Lady Snowblood. Sayo dies during childbirth, leaving precise instructions for her Yuki to revenge the death of her father... 'Lady Snowblood 2' continues the story of Yuki, Lady Snowblood, who has been found guilty .. Read more

Starring Meiko Kaji, Ko Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon
Director Toshiya Fujita
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema

Sign up Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld DVD

loading loading...

Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld cover art

Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld

Two features. During 1874 a child is born to Sayo, a woman held in prison for murder, her name is Yuki Kashima, or Lady Snowblood. Sayo dies during childbirth, leaving precise instructions for her Yuki to revenge the death of her father... 'Lady Snowblood 2' continues the story of Yuki, Lady Snowblood, who has been found guilty of multiple murders but manages to escape her captors...

Starring Meiko Kaji, Ko Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon
Director Toshiya Fujita
Studio WARRIOR
Run time DVD: 1 hr 37 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema
Language DVD: Japanese
Subtitles DVD: English
Released DVD: not available
Production year: 1973
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews of Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld

    View all

  • Limbs are chopped off and blood gushes in copious quantities in a single-minded revenge drama set against a period of social unrest and high level corruption.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

  • Most helpful member's review of Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld

    View all
  • 8 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    The first Kill Bill

    Quentin Tarantino has acknowledged the influence of this film on Kill Bill, and the similarities are striking: the use of chapter headings, the nonlinear use of flashbacks, the bloodshed and the melancholy, unstoppable female avenger.

    But what Shira Yuki Hime or Lady Snowblood, has over Kill Bill are two things: the political context on which it is based, the flirtation with leftist politics that permeated much genre films in the Sixties and Seventies as evidenced in Spaghetti Westerns, Gangster films, and Samurai films, and the blistering presence of star Meiko Kaji, whose smouldering gaze and steely presence keeps your eyes fixed on her whenever she's on-screen. Kaji played tough women in various film series and also enjoyed a singing career in the 1970s (she not only sings the theme song here, but Tarantino also pays tribute by including one of her ballads on the Kill Bill soundtrack).

    See Lady Snowblood for Meiko Kaji, for the merciless story of revenge, and for Kaji's nihilistic screen of rage and despair that ends the movie.

    And then come back for the sequel.

      • Allmovies from London
      • Posted 27 Feb 2004 unknown

  • Most recent members' review of Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld

    View all
  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    BORN TO SEEK REVENGE

    The film takes you through a story of a baby born to later seek revenge on people who had attacked & murdered her parents. Great Film, Good Ending to.

      • A customer from YORKSHIRE UK
      • Posted 06 Jul 2005 19:52

  • More like this

    View all
    Showing 1 to 4 of 20

    loading

Find cinemas


Rating breakdown

910 Member ratings
  • 100
93
  • 90
84
  • 80
152
  • 70
149
  • 60
149
  • 50
97
  • 40
72
  • 30
48
  • 20
41
  • 10
25

Related user collection

Buy from the LOVEFiLM shop

    • Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld

    • Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld
      Two features. During 1874 a child is born to Sayo, a woman held in prison for murder, her name is Yuki Kashima, or Lady Snowblood. Sayo dies during childbirth, leaving precise instructions for her Yuki to revenge the death of her father... 'Lady Snowblood 2' continues the story of Yuki, Lady ...