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	Lady Snowblood (Shurayuki-hime) DVD Review. DVD VISION JAPAN (DVD VISION)
		The woman is Lady Snowblood, child of the netherworld, and revenge incarnate.
		Lady Snowblood telling the daughter of one of her victims to look her may ring a few bells.
		Lady Snowblood is the queen of the revenge flicks, and will continue to be for years to come.
	www.dvdvisionjapan.com /ladysnow.html (1002 words)

	Lady Snowblood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lady Snowblood (修羅雪姫, Shurayuki-hime) is a gory revenge-themed action manga by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Kazuo Kamimura.
		In 1973, Lady Snowblood was adapted into a Japanese action film directed by Toshiya Fujita and starring Meiko Kaji.
		The scene in which The Bride fights O-Ren Ishii uses a snowy landscape that echoes scenes in Lady Snowblood, and the theme song sung by Meiko Kaji (translated by Tarantino as "The Flower of Carnage") is also used in Kill Bill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lady_Snowblood (296 words)

	Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld (1973)
		Lady Snowblood takes place at the end of this period when the government was consolidating its power in preparation for territorial expansion with only a small minority in opposition.
		Lady Snowblood is to Tarantino's Kill Bill what A Touch of Zen is to Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
		Lady Snowblood is a chambara classic by every standard and a must see for for fans of Kill Bill.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/ladysnowblood.htm (1264 words)

	Coffee coffee and more coffee: Lady Snowblood
		By coincidence, Lady Snowblood was way up on my Netflix queue, and I had the opportunity to view it, followed by Kill Bill Volume 1 on cable.
		Lady Snowblood is similar to yakuza films of its time with its scenes of lopped off body parts and geysers of blood, and carefully composed wide screen and color imagery.
		One could say Tarantino double dipped from Fujita, using the basic narrative of Lady Snowblood for both the character of The Bride, the avenging female assassin, and for the back story of O-Ren, the girl who kills her parents' murderer.
	www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com /archives/2005/07/lady_snowblood.html (524 words)

	[KFCC] Lady Snowblood Review
		With a sense of violence that borders on being exploitative, Lady Snowblood slices and dices her way towards the throne, taking up her bladed scepter as reigning queen of 70’s vindication cinema.
		Lady Snowblood is probably most enjoyable when one approaches the film with a desire to see severed limbs and excessive blood, as opposed to careful plotting and well developed character arcs.
		On the other hand, the ladies love a story about a woman out for vengeance, even if it means wading through an over abundance of butchery in order to get to the point where their cinematic sister divvies out the justice.
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/swordplay/ladysnowblood/ladysnowblood.html (802 words)

	The Ninja Dojo - Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Yuki Kashima (Lady Snowblood) has beenfound guilty of multiple murder and sentenced to hang set free by Kikui, the ruthless head of the secret police, she is recruited into his service as a political infltrator.
		Tokunage possesses a document that could blow away the forces of reaction and the government, in the form of a letter that reveals their involvement in framing and executing a number of innocent people in order to further their own political ends.
		Before this affair is concluded, which mixes personal tragedy with public tyranny, Lady Snowblood will have again set herself firmly on the side of the outlaws, the dispossessed and the oppressed, as her sword paints a bespattered trail of carnage that leads to the very heart of corruption
	www.ninjadojo.com /lady_snow2.htm (188 words)

	SaruDama: Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance - Shurayukihime: Urami Renga (Fujita Toshiya 1974) - Japanese Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This film and its 1973 prequel Lady Snowblood are both directed by Fujita Toshiya (藤田敏八), whose career includes 33 in all.
		I was personally very impressed with Lady Snowblood and laud it quite highly in my review if it, particularly in relation to the many other female/heroine films being produced during this same period.
		On the other hand, the fact that this film presents Kashima as a formidable and unapproachable assassin means that her swords skills approach those of the demonic swordsman in Gojoe (but not quite).
	www.sarudama.com /japanese_movies/ladysnowblood2.shtml (1634 words)

	Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		After being sentenced to death for her deeds in the first film, she is "rescued" on the way to the gallows by the emperor's secret police and recruited to infiltrate the nihilists who have documents that could bring down the government.
		Lady Snowblood switches sides and we progress through torture, bubonic plague as a weapon of mass destruction, and class warfare.
		The film is carried more by the characters around Snowblood than by her, especially the two anti-government brothers that Snowblood befriends, as well as the police chief, who can't get a break in this movie.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0072157 (412 words)

	Lady Snowblood
		Kaji plays Yuki, a young woman whose family is pretty much exterminated before she is even born when a gang of ruthless bandits kidnap, rape and beat her mother and kill off her husband.
		Lady Snowblood is a beautifully shot, picture-esque story of bloody revenge, heavy emphasis on bloody.
		Lady Snowblood is presented in its original Japanese language with optional and typo free English subtitles.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/I-L/lady_snowblood.html (750 words)

	Lady Snowblood
		Lady Snowblood is the movie that inspired Tarantino's KILL BILL.
		When a woman is raped by a vicious gang and dies in prison, her newborn daughter Yuki must carry out her revenge.
		Lady Snowblood will probably tickle the fancies of several groups of people, at least some of whom are Heroic Readers.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /reviews/snowbl1 (660 words)

	Manga Reviewer » Lady Snowblood - 77%
		Lady Snowblood might appear to be made from the same wood than other Kazuo Koike titles, like Lone Wolf And Cub or Samurai Executioner, but it isn’t.
		In the case of Lady Snowblood, while the action was good and some of the assasinations were quite clever, I couldn’t connect with Yuki at all, I couldn’t feel her grief.
		But where Lady Snowblood falls short are the characters, since they are not as engaging or interesting as other characters by Kazuo Koike and knowing this, I do recommend it to any of his fans.
	www.mangareviewer.com /?page_id=164 (381 words)

	Lady Snowblood 2 review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Arrested and sentenced to death Snowblood is offered a deal by the Japanese secret police to become a spy.
		Her mission is to infiltrate the house of a leading anarchist and discover the location of a secret letter; the contents of which threaten to topple the government if the scandle ever gets out.
		The motivations for Snowblood's character are not so defined here (in that the pure desire for vengeance that drove her previously are replaced by a will to fight for the underdog) and the film fails to engage in quite the same way.
	www.carly.clara.net /ladysnowblood2.htm (195 words)

	lady snowblood
		Chances are you've been hearing a lot about LADY SNOWBLOOD in relation to Quentin Tarantino's blood gusher KILL BILL.
		Four bandits murder a man and gang-rape his wife, who is kept as a personal whore by one of the killers.
		The wife eventually murders the killer and is sent to jail where, ingeniously, she fucks all the prison guards until she gets pregnant, with the idea of raising the child — Lady Snowblood — as a vengeful assassin.
	www.jeremysilman.com /movies_tv_tt/lady_snowblood.html (499 words)

	Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld / Shurayukihime
		There's a lot of early expositional scenes where we see Shurayuki take on her Lady Snowblood persona, a strong woman whose swordsmanship (and brutality) is second to none and who can take on many men at a time and win.
		I can understand why the film is structured as it is, to establish the Lady Snowblood persona right at the start without any desire to show the complicated backstory, but it really does need serious brainwork to try to make sense of the first phase of the movie.
		That said, by establishing what Lady Snowblood is in the first six minutes of the film you're so instantly sucked in that you're quite prepared to put in the extra work because, quite simply, you want to experience more of this fabulous character.
	www.mandiapple.com /snowblood/ladysnowblood.htm (1499 words)

	Amazon.com: Lady Snowblood: DVD: Meiko Kaji,Toshio Kurosawa,Masaaki Daimon,Miyoko Akaza,Shinichi Uchida,Takeo ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Born in prison, Snowblood is raised by a martial priest and trained to fulfill a single purpose: tracking down, and dismembering (or bisecting), the four cackling fiends who killed her father and persecuted her mother to an early grave.
		LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973) is a starkly beautiful Japanese swordplay drama featuring a female fighter, Shurayuki Hime (Lady Snowblood), or Yuki for short, whose mission in life is to track down and slay three of the four villains who brutalized her mother and killed the mother's husband and son.
		Born in prison--her mother was there for killing the first of the villains and died after childbirth--Yuki is raised by a Buddhist reverend who calls her a "child of the netherworld" and trains her in the fighting arts.
	www.amazon.com /Lady-Snowblood-Meiko-Kaji/dp/B0001I54U2 (2266 words)

	Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
		This sequel to Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld continues where the previous film left off with the title character, also known as Yuki (Meiko Kaji), on the run from the authorities for killing the people responsible for her mother's suffering.
		Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance lacks the focused narrative that drove the previous film so well.
		Lady Snowblood works best when she's on a nihilistic revenge spree and not signing up as a sympathetic anti-Imperialist fighter which is what this sequel shoots for.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/ladysnowbloodlovesongofvengeance.htm (898 words)

	Amazon.ca: Lady Snowblood - DVD: DVD: Toshiya Fujita,Masaaki Daimon,Akira Nishimura,Toshio Kurosawa,Meiko Kaji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Stylish, brutal, and terrifically bloody, Lady Snowblood is a revenge tale of the highest order that continues to inspire since its release in 1973.
		Lady Snowblood is revenge storytelling at its finest, headed by bravura performances and rock-solid direction by Toshiya Fujita.
		Tall and regal, beautiful and ghostly white, Lady S (played by Meiko Kaji) looks too pure to sully herself with bloodletting, a tack which gives her the element of surprise in her many swordfights.
	www.amazon.ca /Lady-Snowblood-DVD-Toshiya-Fujita/dp/B0001I54U2 (1338 words)

	Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The sequel of the stylish LADY SNOWBLOOD, LOVE SONG OF VENGEANCE lacks the compelling story of its predecessor, and although there are some memorable characters, generally does not have the same impact.
		The sequel to LADY SNOWBLOOD is mildly entertaining, but I was not exhilarated.
		A pistol would have been nice, but then it would have been "Bye-bye, Lady Snowblood" in the first 10 seconds into the feature.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /film/reviews/l/lady-snowblood-2.html (345 words)

	SaruDama: Lady Snowblood - Shurayukihime (Fujita Toshiya 1973) - Japanese Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Lady Snowblood, the film currently under review is certainly one of the exemplars and presents a wholly satisfactory and coherent tale of revenge and violence.
		And a year prior to Lady Snowblood played the hard-as-nails female prisoner Matshushima Nami in both Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (1972) and Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41 (1972).
		She will also appear again as Yuki in the sequel to the current film Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974).
	www.sarudama.com /japanese_movies/ladysnowblood.shtml (1129 words)

	Bookshelf Comics - Lady Snowblood Review
		Yuki becomes the master manipulator in episode five when Koike has her hijack a horse-driven carriage at gunpoint with a driver and two lady passengers.
		The only bonus feature in Lady Snowblood is a glossary of certain Japanese names and words used in the story.
		Lady Snowblood has a very strong female lead in Yuki, and a character who I would love to see in future stories.
	www.bookshelfcomics.com /reviews/ladysnowblood.html (680 words)

	Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
		While in prison, she gives birth to Yuki, who (despite being a girl) takes on the burden of revenge for her, becoming Lady Snowblood: a beautiful yet cold young lady with a sword cunningly hidden in a parasol.
		Love Song of Vengeance retains Lady Snowblood's visual style, as well: most of the sets and costumes are brightly coloured and intricate, with some fine composition (though it didn't feel as full of starkly arresting images as the first film).
		Two of the early fight sequences as Yuki escapes from the police are particularly impressive: one's an extended single-shot chase sequence with Yuki running down a lane towards the camera and fighting off attackers as she runs; the other is on a beach, with Yuki standing alone on the sand encircled by policemen.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /reviews/snowbl2 (527 words)

	LoveAsianFilm.com - Lady Snowblood – Blizzard From The Netherworld (Japan 1973)
		The film looks amazing, contrasting all sorts of wide camera shots with close-ups, incorporating the landscape as well as close-ups of faces and with the added use of the weather (she isn’t called Snowblood for nothing), Lady Snowblood pulls you into it’s narrative.
		Lady Snowblood seems to reduce themes, character and camera shots to a primitive level, it’s only flourishes are the way the story is told.
		Lady Snowblood – Blizzard From The Netherworld is an excellent revenge-flick and all-too an obvious influence on some contemporary cinema.
	www.loveasianfilm.com /reviews/ladysnowblood.html (983 words)

	DVD: Lady Snowblood (AnimEigo)
		The print used in the transfer is in excellent condition, as well, with literally no noticeable scratches during the course of the film and very little grain is present.
		Lady Snowblood's original aspect ratio of 2.35:1, or widescreen, is also maintained on this release and is Anamorphic for widescreen TVs.
		This disc is also featured in the box set: Lady Snowblood: DVD Collector's Edition Box.
	www.tohokingdom.com /web_pages/dvd/lady_snowblood_animeigo.htm (693 words)

	Lady Snowblood (1973) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		With a great story, well-done action sequences, and talented acting, the entertainment value of LADY SNOWBLOOD could not be ruined even by the awfully cheesy 1970s Western music.
		This "child of the netherworld" is Yuki, Lady Snowblood (Meiko Kaji), and the film is the story of her cold revenge that takes place twenty years later.
		The film is suffused with impressive imagery, and the narrative has several unexpected twists and turns.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /film/reviews/l/lady-snowblood.html (336 words)

	Lady Snowblood
		The most brutal is found in Shurayuki-Hime, known as Lady Snowblood to heathen gaijin.
		Lady Snowblood's violence is so extreme that it threatens to overwhelm the rest of the movie.
		The events of the movie are directly predicated on the political upheaval caused by the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the "opening" of Japan.
	www.tranquility.net /~benedict/ladysnowblood.html (1165 words)

	Stone Cold Pimpin': Lady Snowblood
		All this is set against the Meiji era of Japan, and a climactic fight scene is shot inside a very Western costume ball, where British Admirals dance with Japanese ladies.
		If anyone thought the violence in Kill Bill was cartoony or gross, Lady Snowblood has plenty more limb-choppin', blood spurtin' action.
		No matter where Yuki hits with her sword, she is guaranteed to hit a main artery, the result a hissing, arcing fountain o' blood.
	www.tedmills.com /2004/07/lady_snowblood.html (357 words)

	Lady Snowblood 1 & 2 - Horrordvds.com Forum
		Lady Snowblood is part Revenge flick, part drama, part action with plenty of blood and swordfights to appease all genre fans.
		The song played after the fight between Oren and the Bride in Kill Bill is actually from Lady Snowblood...
		I suggest waiting for their release of LADY SNOWBLOOD, as their LONE WOLF discs are absolutely beautiful, besting all other versions.
	www.horrordvds.com /vb3forum/showthread.php?t=17166 (1384 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Lady Snowblood (1973)
		Lady Snowblood was written by Kazuo Koike, who also scripted several of the most memorable films in the Lone Wolf and Cub series.
		And O-ren Ishi and the Bride from Tarantino's kind-of-an-epic both seem to be children of the Lady Snowblood charactor.
		Personally, i was kind of over SNOWBLOOD'S monotonous gloom before the end of the picture, although i did get an unabashed kick out of the constant stream of gore, psychadelic soundtrack rock, pulp plotting and artificial snow that got me there.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=99353 (380 words)

	Lady Snowblood Manga - Snowblood Apple Forums
		Dark Horse are releasing the english translation in september.
		A story of pure vengeance, Lady Snowblood tells the tale of a daughter born of a singular purpose, to avenge the death of her family at the hands of a gang of thugs, a purpose woven into her soul from the time of her gestation.
		Beautifully drafted and full of bloody, sexy action, Lady Snowblood lives up to its title and reputation.
	www.mandiapple.com /forum/showthread.php?t=2450 (358 words)

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