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Lady Snowblood: Double Feature

A young woman (Meiko Kaji), trained from childhood as an assassin and hell-bent on revenge for the murders of her father and brother and the rape of her mother, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Japan. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, Toshiya Fujitas pair of influential cult classics Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance are bloody, beautiful extravaganzas composed of one elegant widescreen composition after another. The first Lady Snowblood was a major inspiration for Quentin Tarantinos Kill Bill saga, and both of Fujitas films remain cornerstones of Asian action cinema.

LADY SNOWBLOOD - 1973
Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujitas stunning Lady Snowblood. A major inspiration for Quentin Tarantinos Kill Bill saga, this endlessly inventive film, set in late nineteenth-century Japan, charts the single-minded path of vengeance taken by a young woman (Meiko Kaji) whose parents were the unfortunate victims of a gang of brutal criminals. Fujita creates a wildly entertaining action film of remarkable craft, an effortless balancing act between beauty and violence.

LADY SNOWBLOOD: LOVE SONG OF VENGEANCE - 1974
Meiko Kaji returns in Toshiya Fujitas invigorating sequel to his own cult hit Lady Snowblood. Our furious heroine is captured by the authorities and sentenced to death for the various killings she has committed; however, she is offered a chance of escapeif she carries out dangerous orders for the government.