Lady Snowblood (1973)
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| German title | Lady Snowblood |
| Original title | Shurayuki-hime |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Toshiya Fujita |
| script |
Kazuo Uemura , Kazuo Koike |
| production | Kikumaru Okuda |
| music | Hirao Masaaki |
| camera | Tamura Masaki |
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Lady Snowblood ( Japanese 修羅 雪 姫 , Shurayuki-hime ) is a Japanese action film from 1973 with Meiko Kaji in the lead role. It is a film adaptation of the manga of the same name, Lady Snowblood, by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura .
title
The title is a play on words with Shirayuki-hime ( 白雪 姫 ) - Japanese for Princess Snow White - and Shura ( 修羅 ) - Japanese for the Indian demon Asura .
action
Yuki Kashima is born in prison; her mother dies in childbirth. In retrospect one learns that the mother, her husband and both young sons were victims of four greedy criminals who killed the father and the child and raped the mother. One of the perpetrators fell in love with his mother and opened a tea room with her. The mother later stabbed this man to death and was sent to prison for life.
There she randomly sleeps with men in order to father a child who can complete her vengeance. The girl grows up with a former samurai who trains her to be a swordsman. Little by little she tracks down the remaining criminals and kills them. In the end, she is badly injured with a knife by the daughter of one of her victims, who she has been chasing to take revenge for the alleged crime, and sinks into the snow. When the sun rises the next morning, however, she survived and wakes up.
criticism
Lexicon of international films : Avenging film set at the time of the Meiji dynasty (around 1870), which is one of the classics of its genre. Made after a manga, the film not only describes a historical turning point in Japan, but also captivates with its visual beauty, which gives the sad attitude of the combat-oriented film a coherent atmosphere. An impressive genre film whose story and protagonists were the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's martial arts spectacle “Kill Bill”.
Adaptations and sequels
From Lady Snowblood there is a sequel titled Lady Snow Blood 2: Love Song of Vengeance .
The film was also one of the main inspirations for the film Kill Bill by Quentin Tarantino . Again, it is about a woman who, one after another, takes deadly revenge on all the people who have destroyed their lives. Many elements from Lady Snowblood also reappear in Kill Bill , for example the division into individual chapters, the fact that Japanese swords are used, and the discontinuous narrative style. Some scenes also show similarities (fight of the bride against O-Ren Ishii - opening scene in Lady Snowblood).
The song The Flower of Carnage , which forms the musical leitmotif of Lady Snowblood and is sung by Meiko Kaji, is also used in Tarantino's films.
The film The Princess Blade (English title, also Shurayuki-hime in the original ) from 2001 is based on the same manga.
Web links
- Lady Snow Blood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lady Snowblood in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lady Snowblood. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 11, 2017 .