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Lady Snowblood (Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld) (Shurayukihime)

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Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza, Shinichi Uchida

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  read more... )re. Born in prison, Snowblood is raised by a martial priest and trained to fulfill a single purpose: tracking down, and dismembering (or bisecting), the four cackling fiends who killed her father and persecuted her mother to an early grave. Adapted from another manga comic book written by Kasuo Koike, whose most famous work became the legendary Lone Wolf and Cub film series, this 1973 programmer stays close to its pulp-paper roots: images from the comics are deployed in a couple of montage sequences, and the story is divided into four chapters drawn from the monthly manga installments. Stalwart leading man Toshio Kurasawa plays a crusading journalist who writes a series of Japanese dime novels based on Snowblood's exploits, and manages to flush out a couple of the evildoers in the process. --David Chute

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  • SirPant
    December 8, 2009
    SirPant
    Wow, I hadn't realised quite how much of this film QT actually ripped off! Lady Snowblood is certainly one of the more intelligent films of it genres, Meiko Kaji kicks arse as does the soundtrack, fight sequences and overall beauty of this film.
  • rubystevens
    July 6, 2009
    rubystevens
    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 :(
  • garyX
    May 14, 2009
    garyX
    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)ul assassin who hunts down her enemies one by one, each assigned their own headed chapter of the story with blood and violence contrasted with tranquil scenes of falling snow...? There's even a section when a flashback is told through manga comic art. Quentin, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. This attractively shot film actually has a tinge of Spaghetti western about it despite the katanas and blood spurts because of the theme of lone stranger cutting down their enemies to exaggerated sound effects and a deeply 70s soundtrack, and the combination works very nicely. There are some fantastic images and beautifully framed shots and Meiko Kaji is perfect as the steely beauty. Plot is a little thinner on the ground and there is little emotional involvement as the main character is SO single minded, but its massive influence over more contemporary films has kept it feeling very fresh and it's a landmark hack and slasher for those interested in the genre.
  • DragonEyeMorrison
    October 13, 2008
    DragonEyeMorrison
    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.
  • stopitgoaway
    October 8, 2008
    stopitgoaway
    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)h dies.

    The movie is well done, although I think it is hard to watch for most of the people nowadays, since it has that 60's-70's feel to it. I can see how this could have been an inspiration for Kill Bill. If you liked Kill Bill for other reasons than that it had Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu in it, then you will love this film.

    If you watch the movie, you will probably have fun, but if you look at the whole picture (pun intended) there isn't much to it other than the actual revenge and death of everyone. The girl is very nice, the acting is OK, the atmosphere, settings and soundtrack are good, but that's all. No strange twists of the story, nothing unexpected
  • pedunight
    December 23, 2009
    pedunight
    no tengo idea de qué essssss, basta de aparecer!!
  • eryri
    December 18, 2009
    eryri
    This is the film that inspired Tarantino with Kill Bill.I just love watching Meiko Kaji in any movie. She's one awesome woman.
  • sweller1735
    November 18, 2009
    sweller1735
    I just love these kinds of movies the way some love Bruce lee films
  • agentanamacphisto
    September 11, 2009
    agentanamacphisto
    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)wing).

    Pure inspiration.
  • saneteapot
    August 30, 2009
    saneteapot
    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)ll-done.
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