Lady Snowblood
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Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood. A major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, this endlessly inventive film, set in late nineteenth-century Japan, charts the single-minded path of vengeance taken by a young woman (Meiko Kaji) whose parents were the unfortunate victims of a gang of brutal criminals. Fujita creates a wildly entertaining action film of remarkable craft, an effortless balancing act between beauty and violence.
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Cast
- Meiko Kaji
- Yuki Kashima (Shurayuki-hime)
- Toshio Kurosawa
- Ryurei Ashio
- Masaaki Daimon
- Go Kashima
- Miyoko Akaza
- Sayo Kashima
- Shinichi Uchida
- Shiro Kashima
- Takeo Chii
- Tokuichi Shokei
- Noboru Nakaya
- Banzo Takemura
- Yoshiko Nakada
- Kobue Takemura
- Akemi Negishi
- Tajire no Okiku
- Kaoru Kusuda
- Tora Kobayashi
- Mayumi Maemura
- Young Yuki
- Eiji Okada
- Gishiro Tsukamoto
- Ko Nishimura
- Priest Dokai
Credits
- Director
- Toshiya Fujita
- Produced by
- Kikumaru Okuda
- Original authors
- Kazuo Koike
- Original authors
- Kazuo Kamimura
- Screenplay by
- Norio Osada
- Cinematography by
- Masaki Tamura
- Music by
- Masaaki Hirao
- Editing by
- Osamu Inoue
- Production design by
- Kazuo Satsuya
- Sword choreography by
- Kunishiro Hayashi
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