Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon
A flamboyantly blood-spattered samurai revenge picture with a twist: the implacable seeker of retribution is a slender female (Meiko Kaji) with a flawless ivory complexion and a dead-center killer sta...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 11, 2004
Stats: 367 reviews
stylish and gory and i might have enjoyed it alot more if i'd never seen kill bill...so thx quentin, for ruining it for me :(
When a gang of confidence tricksters murder a schoolteacher and rape his wife she plots bloody vengeance against them, but when she is imprisoned for life she passes the task onto her newborn daughter. There's no way around saying it; this IS Kill Bill. A cold blooded but beautif...( read more)
Kazuo Koike's theory is right, great characters make the stories write by themselves. Add someone with great screen charisma like Meiko Kaji and you have a winner.
This is one of those movies that have an all Japanese motivation. A girl is trained from childhood to avenge the death of her father and the brutal rape of her mother. Then she does it. Lots of blood and lots of sword fighting. Well, she does most of it, everybody else pretty muc...( read more)
Bloody and beautiful. Also, the script is masterfully conducted. One of those movies you wish you had watched as a teen, so that it would change your life forever (it does changes you life a bit if you watch it as an adult, but only if your work involves writing, directing or dra...( read more)
This is a beautiful film. The lead actress delivers the most subtle performance I've ever seen; very powerful. The visuals are startling and the revenge tale compelling. The swordwork is elegant and efficient without for example a ridiculous reliance on wires. This is just we...( read more)
Really Damn cool. Tarantino basically stole everything from this film put Uma Thurman in it and called it Kill Bill. lead.
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