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A young woman (Meiko Kaji), trained from childhood as an assassin and hell-bent on revenge for her father’s murder and her mother’s rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, Toshiya Fujita’s pair of influential cult classics Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance, set in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan, respectively, are bloody, beautiful extravaganzas composed of one elegant widescreen composition after another. The first Lady Snowblood was a major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, and both of Fujita’s films remain cornerstones of Asian action cinema.
Condition:NEW.
Product Details:
Actors: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Juzo Itami, Masaaki Daimon, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Directors: Toshiya Fujita
Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Number of discs: 1
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)
DVD Release Date: January 5, 2016
Run Time: 186 minutes
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
• New 2K digital restorations of both films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
• New interviews with Kazuo Koike, the writer of the manga on which the films are based, and screenwriter Norio Osada
• Trailers
• New English subtitle translations
• PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton
Cast:
Meiko Kaji - Yuki Kashima (Shurayuki-hime)
Toshio Kurosawa - Ryûrei Ashio
Masaaki Daimon - Gô Kashima
Miyoko Akaza - Sayo Kashima
Shinichi Uchida - Shirô Kashima
Takeo Chii - Tokuichi Shôkei
Noboru Nakaya - Banzô Takemura
Yoshiko Nakada - Kobue Takemura
Akemi Negishi - Tajire no Okiku
Kaoru Kusuda - Otora Mikazuki
Sanae Nakahara - Kitahama, Okono
Hôsei Komatsu - Genzô Shibayama
Makoto Matsuzaki - Daikashi
Hiroshi Hasegawa - Daihachi Kachime
Takehiko Ono - (as Susumu Kuroki)
Hitoshi Takagi - Matsuemon
Mayumi Maemura - Young Yuki
Kenji Ôkura - Henchman
Kai Atô - Henchman
Eiji Okada - Gishirô Tsukamoto
Kô Nishimura - Priest Dôkai
Technical Credit:
Directed by: Toshiya Fujita
Story Writer: Kazuo Kamimura
Story Writer: Kazuo Koike
Screenplay Writer: Norio Osada
Executive producer: Kikumaru Okuda
Executive producer: Robert J. Woodhead
Music by: Masaaki Hirao
Cinematography by: Masaki Tamura
Film Editing by: Osamu Inoue
Production Designer: Kazuo Satsuya
Production Manager: Hiroaki Tanno
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: Kiyoshi Segawa
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