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Japan · 1973
1h 37m
Director Toshiya Fujita
Starring Meiko Kaji, Kō Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon
Genre Action, Drama, Thriller
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After her husband's brutal murder, Sayo is sent to a women's prison where she gives birth to a daughter, Yuki. With her dying breath, Sayo wishes that her daughter be raised to avenge her family. Now, 20 years later, Yuki is a skilled assassin on a bloody quest for revenge.
Blood sprays, limbs fall, bodies are chopped in half--business as usual in this moderately diverting feudal Japanese revenge story, enlivened by peculiar plot twists and offbeat cinematic flourishes that greatly influenced Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.
Stylishly shot and full of blood spraying from slashed necks, shoulders and stomachs, Lady Snowblood is a thoroughly enjoyable and arty exploitation flick which has deservedly gone on to become a cult hit.
A rape-revenge narrative so streamlined that even the gimmick of its achronological editing never muddies the progression of Yuki’s journey.
A pulpy, violent tale of revenge based on a comic serialized in a popular Playboy-esque men’s magazine, Lady Snowblood didn’t have to be art. But director Toshiya Fujita treated it as such, utilizing a complicated flashback structure and expressionistic cinematography to tell the story of Yuki Kashima, a highly skilled assassin trained from birth to find and kill the men (and woman) responsible for murdering her father and raping her mother before she was born.
The most daring film import ever ... from Japan!
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