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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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MCT:June 3, 2008Tarentino peut bien aller se rhabiller avec ses vengeances.
Non, plus sérieusement, je n'ai d'autre choix que de glisser un mot sur Tarentino dans ma critique puisqu'il est évident que ce film de Toshiya Fujita fut assurément l'une des grandes sources d'inspiration de Quentin. Ou, du moins, s'il ne l'est pas, il le devrait.
Lady Snowblood est une épopée de vengeance formidable qui, même en 1973, parvient à nous replonger dans un Japon ancestral où le sang abonde et la quiétude n'existe pas. L'utilisation surabondante d'un sang exagérément écarlate a évidemment de quoi provoquer quelques sourires en coin chez les spectateurs, mais il n'en demeure pas moins que le film est empreint d'une esthétique déroutante et que la poésie des images en vient vite à se frotter à la rudesse du propos.
Quant à elle, l'intrigue, qui fait habituellement défaut dans les films du genre, est tout simplement formidablement travaillée, à un point tel que le déroulement est vraiment très peu prévisible et que les différentes clés aux problématiques font preuve d'originalité et de recherches approfondies. De plus, cette vendetta est drapée sur fond socio-politique, de quoi attester davantage de crédibilité à l'oeuvre dans son ensemble.
Quatre noms à tuer sur un bout de papier.
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MCT:May 7, 2008
The best revenge flick ever made, with a basci plot but very well development, at the same time the characters are the best part from this.
Meiko Kaji absolute rule in the main role, with her eyes full of hate and even sadness. -
MCT:March 23, 2008
Inspiration is a funny word
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MCT:March 12, 2008
Basic revenge premise, but very nicely done, from the direction to Meiko Kaji's excellent casting as the lead character. Kazuo Koike's theory is right, great characters make the stories write by themselves.
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MCT:March 11, 2008
I can't believe it's taken me so long to watch this. I mean, here you got a bloody and violent revenge flick and the beautiful Meiko Kaji. Heck, both my wife and I have decided it we ever have a daughter we're naming her Matsu, from Kaji's character in Female Convict Scorpian.
Well, now that I've seen it, everyone is right, this is awesome. Gorgeous cinematography combined with brutal violence and an amazing lead performance, Kaji is one of the few females who truly seems badass, not an actress trying to play it. A must see. -
MCT:January 28, 2008Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Though she dies in childbirth, she makes sure that the child will be raised as an assassin to kill the criminals who destroyed her family. Young Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
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MCT:January 11, 2008
I see this Japanese samurai movie that inspired Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. This is the best and most savage samurai of a femme fatale I ever saw.
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MCT:January 8, 2008
Really well done revenge flick that was a major inspiration for the Kill Bill films.
Interesting film grammar and stage theatric elevate this genre gem above it's contemporaries -
MCT:December 27, 2007
It's a girl born for revenge! This was a very entertaining movie. Watch this if you want to see the movie that inspired Kill Bill.
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MCT:December 12, 2007
I want to give this an extra half star. Here's the deal. For what it was, it was a fantastic movie...but since we grade all movies on one scale, I really can't give this the same points as some movies. Ain't it a b*tch?
I heard that this is where Kill Bill came from. It sure did. I love how the marketing department put on the box "featuring music used in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. Tarantino took a lot more from this movie than just the music. But let's not review Kill Bill. I already love that movie. (Although I've never written a review for it...hmmmm)
This movie is gory. Old school, thick red paint squirting everywhere gory! And boy, is it cool? The premise is very similar to Kill Bill, only the part of vengeance is done on behalf of the daughter of the wronged, which makes it kind of interesting. She's trained since birth to be a killing machine, but still manages to have emotions. There really aren't fight sequences in this movie so much as slaughtering. In fact, the hardest people to kill in this movie are henchmen, who, for once, are fairly competant while still being cannon fodder. But the posse? My God, do they die easy, which is kind of a shame. I was really hoping for some knock-down, drag-out fights, but instead I got a lot of cool bloodshed and fun atmosphere from backstories. Really, the backstory carries this movie more than the actual hunt for the four culprits. I don't know what is going to happen in Lady Snowblood 2, but I can imagine it is going to be significantly weaker than the first one. Either way, I anticipate a good time.
By the way, I'm going from Lady Snowblood to The Quiet Man. I have what they call "diverse tastes." -
MCT:November 26, 2007
You'll need that umbrella to ward off the raining blood. Graphic & highly enjoyable vengeance flix w/ some nice twists in chapter four.
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MCT:November 14, 2007
AMAZING! I love this movie. Almost makes Kill Bill seem like total plaigiarism. Stylish, passionate, brutal and deadly. Great plot, extraordinary performances, and visuals that look like anime come to life set this kung fu movie above the usual b grade trash. Any fan of Kill Bill needs to see this movie. The similarities aren't only in plot and theme, but in the amazing style. A rare gem.
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MCT:November 8, 2007
Great revenge epic. Less sexually explicit than the manga (which is also excellent). O-Ren Ishii from KILL BILL was loosely based on this character.
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MCT:September 29, 2007I only just found out that the Manga on which this is based was written by Kazuo Koike - also famous for Lone Wolf and Cub and Crying Freeman - and it was the precursor to Kill Bill, so I'm really dying to see this one.
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MCT:September 22, 2007
This was the main inspiration for Kill Bill, it was a bit slow and got boring in some parts, it still worth checking out
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MCT:August 6, 2007
Quienton Tarintino. Stole From this movie. AKA KILL BILL hello
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MCT:June 22, 2007
The bride was inspired by this film a lot...lol!! so thx to that bloody girl here quantin did very well indeed!!! nice movie...
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MCT:May 27, 2007
Cheesy at times, but very enjoyable throughout. It's very obvious that Quentin did more than be inspired by this film.
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MCT:May 27, 2007
Japanese exploitation with a strong female lead. Kida sucks that Kaji disappeared into television obscurity.
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MCT:May 5, 2007
It's regarded as a masterpiece in Japan. The movie that inspired Trantino for Kill Bill. In fact the there are many analogies between the two films. Violent and harsh. Pure B Japanese Movie!
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MCT:April 5, 2007
The ultra-violent samurai flick that inspired Kill Bill serves an example of the good things that came from the exploitation era
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MCT:January 14, 2007
There were many excellent things about this movie but the most pivotal of all was the flawless direction brought on by Toshiya Fujita. I mean this movie was like ahead of its time or something. Or maybe thats just the way movies were made in the seventies and it raised to such cool levels in a natural way. But this film has all these visual gags and tricks that could have only been spawned from that glorious era known as the 70s. Many scenes show that this director took special care in making this movie special, like those scenes with Lady Snowblood walking in the snow with her dress filled with the blood of her victim.
The plot was almost entirely copied for Kill Bill. But I find the plot in this one slightly more interesting. The music was extremely good and quite moving. Two of the songs were actually used in Kill Bill. The effects are the traditional over the top ones you would expect. Lots of severed limbs and gushing blood. If you like Zatoichi, Lone wolf and cub or Sex and fury, like me, you'll love this. -
MCT:December 29, 2006
Great movie with enough vengeance and gore. I don't recommend this movie to people who don't like to see blood!
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