I suppose you could say that this sequel has a slightly more intelligent storyline but unfortunately politics just isn't as entertaining as bloodthirsty revenge! Still, it's all good and Meiko Kaji is brilliant as always!
Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Kazuko Toshiyuki, Shin Kishida, Juzo Itami
In Love Song of Vengeance, Shurayuki-hime--a.k.a. Lady Snowblood, "Yuki" for short (played by Meiko Kaji)--continues her advertures in the female samurai saga that inspired Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bi...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 11, 2004
Stats: 131 reviews
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December 8, 2009
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November 22, 2009
More plot-heavy but somehow less compelling than its predecessor, Love Song of Vengeance utilizes a short running time to help deflect criticism. Fans of the original shouldn't be disappointed.
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May 18, 2009
Lady Snowblood is arrested and sentenced to death, but broken out of jail by a corrupt secret policeman who wishes to employ her talents to recover an incriminating document. Why this film is called "Love Song Of Vengeance" I have absolutely no idea because the plot is basically ...( read more)
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October 8, 2008
Toshiya Fujita's "Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga" aka. "Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song Of Vengeance" of 1974 is a quite different, but more than decent sequel to Fujita's blood-soaked and beautiful 1973 gem "Shurayukihime" (aka. "Lady Snowblood"). While the film does not nearly reach ...( read more)
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September 20, 2008
There's no doubt that this film is decent as all hell, but it wasn't exactly what one would hope for in a follow-up to the first.
The initial premise for the film being "So you've spent your entire life building up to the moment where you kill the ultimate person who wronged you...( read more) -
January 23, 2010
Such a great movie, wish that more people have watched this. Beautiful acting by Meiko.
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August 21, 2009
A decent sequal thats good, but nothing compaired to the first movie. Partly, this is due to the revenge being over on the first one and they decided to make a sequal for the hell of it. This is like Oceans Twelve coming after Oceans Eleven. In both sequals, the main characters a...( read more)
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August 15, 2009
Really Damn cool. Tarantino basically stole everything from this film put Uma Thurman in it and called it Kill Bill.
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