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A young woman, trained from childhood as an assassin and hellbent 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, the influential cult classic Lady Snowblood...

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Other Authors: Osada, Norio, 1942- (Screenwriter), Ōhara, Kiyohide (Screenwriter), Kaji, Meiko (Actor), Kurosawa, Toshio (Actor), Daimon, Masaaki (Actor), Akaza, Miyoko, 1944- (Actor), Uchida, Shinichi (Actor), Chii, Takeo, 1942-2012 (Actor), Nakaya, Noboru, 1929-2006 (Actor), Nakada, Yoshiko, 1953- (Actor), Negishi, Akemi, 1934-2008 (Actor), Kusuda, Kaoru (Actor), Nakahara, Sanae, 1935-2012 (Actor), Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995 (Actor), Nishimura, Kō (Actor), Maemura, Mayumi (Actor), Harada, Yoshio, 1940-2011 (Actor), Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935- (Actor), Kishida, Shin, 1939-1982 (Actor), Nanbara, Kōji, 1927-2001 (Actor), Yamamoto, Rinichi, 1927-1980 (Actor), Abe, Tōru, 1917-1993 (Actor), Mizoguchi, Shunsuke (Actor), Hamada, Akira, 1941- (Actor), Hirose, Masasuke (Actor), Itami, Jūzō, 1933-1997 (Actor), Tamura, Masaki, 1939-2018 (director of photography.), Hirao, Masaaki, 1937-2017 (composer (expression)), Hirose, Kenjirō (Composer) (composer (expression)), Suzuki, Tatsuo, 1935- (director of photography.), Koike, Kazuo, 1936-, Kamimura, Kazuo
Format: Video DVD
Language:Japanese
Language Notes:In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Published: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Edition:Two-DVD special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 790.
Criterion collection ; 791.
Subjects:
Women martial artists > Japan > Drama.
Revenge > Drama.
Martial arts > Drama.
Japan > History > Meiji period, 1868-1912 > Drama.
Martial arts.
Revenge.
Women martial artists.
Japan.
1868 - 1912
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Martial arts films.
Action and adventure films.
Samurai films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Drama.
History.
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Summary:A young woman, trained from childhood as an assassin and hellbent 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, the influential cult classic Lady Snowblood and set in late nineteenth century Japan, is a bloody, beautiful extravaganza composed of one elegant widescreen composition.
Item Description:Based on manga written by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura.
Lady Snowblood originally released as a motion picture in 1973.
Lady Snowblood : love song of vengeance originally released as a motion picture in 1974.
Special features: Disc 1: Kazuo Koike (new interview with the writer of the manga that inspired the films); Norio Osada (the screenwriter discusses his adaptation of the manga into two films); Trailer. Disc 2: Trailer. An essay "Flowers of Carnage" by critic Howard Hampton included in container insert.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (approximately 186 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Format:DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
Production Credits:Lady Snowblood: Cinematography by Masaki Tamura ; production design by Kazuo Satsuya ; music by Masaaki Hirao ; edited by Osamu Inoue.
Lady Snowblood : love song of vengeance: Cinematography by Tatsuo Suzuki ; production design by Yukio Higuchi ; music by Kenjiro Hirose ; edited by Osamu Inoue.
ISBN:9781681430966
1681430967