Lady Snowblood [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2001-12-29 rating:
A blood-curdling tale of revenge that is sure to please
Set in Meji-era Japan, a lot of time and effort has been put into recreating a period set. Kaji Meiko gives an excellent performance as the assassin without pity or remorse for her victims, seeking the four people who killed her father and brother. Her mother is imprisoned after killing one of the villains. Yuki (Meiko's character) is born in prison and her life is centred around violence and suffering.

Women don't normally star in samurai movies. Though this isn't strictly a samurai movie, it features all of the staple elements - fast moving action and a plot full of blood-boiling vengeance. Kaji Meiko shows that this genre need not be male dominated, or that women should only use poison or stab people in the back. She attacks head-on, dispatching her enemies with controlled strokes of her blade.

The only regret I had about this film was that there could have been a few more fight scenes and that Kaji Meiko could have had an opponent worthy of her character's skills. However the time spent on each fight scene is well spent. This is not the kind of film that relies on a blizzard of action or special effects. It is almost sure to please most fans of Japanese film.

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