Lady Snowblood
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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.
Widescreen (2.35:1)
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.
Disc 1. Lady Snowblood (97 min.) / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; a Tokyo Eiga Co., Ltd production ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; screenplay by Norio Osada ; directed by Toshiya Fujita -- Disc two. Lady Snowblood: love song of vengeance (89 min.) / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; a Tokyo Eiga Co., Ltd production ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; screenplay by Norio Osada and Kiyohide Ohara ; directed by Toshiya Fujita.
Lady Snowblood: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza, Shinichi Uchida, Takeo Chii, Noboru Nakaya, Yoshiko Nakada, Akemi Negishi, Kaoru Kusuda, Sanae Nakahara, Eiji Okada, Ko Nishimura, Maymi Maemura.
Lady Snowblood : love song of vengeance: Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Shin Kishida, Koji Nanbara, Rinichi Yamamoto, Toru Abe, Shunsuke Mizoguchi, Akira Hamada, Masasuke Hirose, Juzo Itami.
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.
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
Contents: Shurayukihime.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Powerful submitted by inewton on August 20, 2018, 2:53pm This has a fantastic story, good action, interesting characters and backstories. Mostly it was really cool seeing such a strong female lead following her destiny with perseverance. Heartbreaking and inspiring all at once
SERIES
Criterion collection
790.
Criterion collection
791.
Shurayukihime (Motion picture)
Shurayukihime urami koiuta (Motion picture)
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
PUBLISHED
[Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: 2 videodiscs (approximately 186 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781681430966
1681430967
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Fujita, Toshiya, 1932-1997,
Okuda, Kikumaru,
Osada, Norio, 1942-
Ōhara, Kiyohide,
Kaji, Meiko,
Kurosawa, Toshio,
Daimon, Masaaki,
Akaza, Miyoko, 1944-
Uchida, Shinichi,
Chii, Takeo, 1942-2012,
Nakaya, Noboru, 1929-2006,
Nakada, Yoshiko, 1953-
Negishi, Akemi, 1934-2008,
Kusuda, Kaoru,
Nakahara, Sanae, 1935-2012,
Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995,
Nishimura, Kō,
Maemura, Mayumi,
Harada, Yoshio, 1940-2011,
Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935-
Kishida, Shin, 1939-1982,
Nanbara, Kōji, 1927-2001,
Yamamoto, Rinichi, 1927-1980,
Abe, Tōru, 1917-1993,
Mizoguchi, Shunsuke,
Hamada, Akira, 1941-
Hirose, Masasuke,
Itami, Jūzō, 1933-1997,
Tamura, Masaki, 1939-
Satsuya, Kazuo,
Hirao, Masaaki, 1937-
Hirose, Kenjirō (Composer),
Inoue, Osamu, 1932-
Suzuki, Tatsuo, 1935-
Higuchi, Yukio,
Koike, Kazuo, 1936-
Kamimura, Kazuo.
Hampton, Howard, 1958-
Janus Films,
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha,
Tokyo Eiga Co., Ltd.,
Criterion Collection (Firm),
藤田敏八, 1932-1997,
梶芽亥子,
黒沢年男,
赤座美代子, 1944-
地井武男, 1942-2012,
中田喜子 , 1953-
根岸明美 , 1934-2008,
岡田英次, 1920-1995,
西村晃,
原田芳雄, 1940-2011,
吉行和子, 1935-
南原宏治, 1927-2001,
山本麟一 , 1927-1980,
阿部徹, 1917-1993,
伊丹十三, 1933-1997,
たむらまさき, 1939-
井上治, 1932-
鈴木達夫, 1935-
小池一夫, 1936-
上村一夫.
東宝株式会社,
SUBJECTS
Women martial artists -- Japan -- Drama.
Revenge -- Drama.
Martial arts -- Drama.
Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- Drama.
Martial arts films.
Action and adventure films.
Samurai films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.