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Lady Snowblood

1973 film directed by Toshita Fujiya

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Sep 24, 2010

by smurfwreck
posted in Welcome to the Grindhouse

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I'll be honest, I rented this film strictly because I love Kill Bill and I was curious to see where Tarantino culled his imagery and ideas. I'm very glad I did, and it's why I think Kill Bill is a very important bridge between modern cinema and cult and foreign film that, lets face it, most of us miss out on. This film is a very beautiful and poetic look at revenge and love. The title character, Yuki, is born into and raised with a single ideology, vengeance. She knows no love, except for that of her deceased parents and brother, nor hate, except for her enemies who killed her father and brother and tortured her mother. The film follows Yuki on her journey to find and enact her vengeance on these four villains. Though the plot is fairly simple, it's well crafted and manages to sidestep what could be easy static characterization for very well drawn character arcs. The action and swordplay are beautiful and wonderfully over the top, as are the settings, story devices (like the use of paintings and manga to depict flashback and plot explanation), and special FX (lots of arterial blood sprays.) For fans of Kill Bill, this film is the basis for the O-Ren Ishii character. Other references are similar settings (the fight at the end of the House of Blue Leaves sequence), numbered chapters, music, the afore mentioned arterial blood sprays, very similar character development, freeze frames with character identification, a very similar rouges gallery upward camera shot, and a mixture of live action and animation/manga.

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review by Captain_Couth. August 21, 2010

posted in Welcome to the Grindhouse

You might as well call this movie Kill Bill 0.

Lady Snowblood is an ultra-violent Japanese revenge film that was based upon a manga of the same name. The film is about Yuki, a woman who was born with vengeance in her blood. She is a trained killer who is hunting down the four villians that were responsible for the brutal murder of her mother's husband. Yuki's mother died during her birth in prison (she ended up in the big house after murdering one of the villains) and throughout her upbringing she was trained to become … more

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Shawn Robare (smurfwreck)
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I watch a lot of movies, read a lot of books, and buy a lot of useless nostalgia crap. I run Brandedinthe80s.com, am a co-organizer of the Up! Fair (upfair.org), and am one of the co-hosts … more