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.
Lady Snowblood(修羅雪姫)
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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.
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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.
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