Lady Snowblood 1 - Blizzard From The Netherworld
1973
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 |
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| Director | Toshiya Fujita |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
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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 | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | Japanese |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: not available Production year: 1973 |
| Format | DVD |
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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.
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
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.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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.
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