Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

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German title Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
Original title 修羅 雪 姫 怨 み 恋歌
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1974
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Toshiya Fujita
script Norio Osada ,
Kiyohide Ohara
production Kikumaru Okuda
music Kenjirō Hirose
camera Tatsuo Suzuki
cut Osamu Inoue
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Lady Snowblood

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance ( Japanese 修羅 雪 姫 怨 み 恋歌 , Shurayuki-hime: Urami renga , Eng. "Shurayuki-hime: Racheliebeslied") is a feature film by the Japanese Tōei from 1974 with Meiko Kaji in the leading role . It was directed by Toshiya Fujita . The staging of political unrest and intrigue is a continuation of the Japanese classic avenging film Lady Snowblood from 1973 and is based on a manga by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura.

On February 21, 2007, the feature film in its original language with German subtitles was included in the video evaluation by Rapid Eye Movies (in the “Nippon Classics” series).

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The film is set against the background of the victorious conflict between the Great Japanese Empire in the Russo-Japanese War at the beginning of the 20th century. In Japan there is inflation as a result of the enormous costs of war , which is received with particular resentment by most Japanese. A simmering conflict and criticism of the prevailing structures seem inevitable.

The fugitive swordsman Yuki Kashima, also known as "Shurayuki", is surrounded by a police unit after her bloody campaign of revenge, which killed 37 people. The tired avenger then ends the armed struggle, allows herself to be arrested and finally falls into the hands of the judiciary. Due to the gravity of the guilt, the "child of retribution" was sentenced to death by hanging in March 1906 . On the day of her execution , however, she is freed by a group of the imperial secret police and taken to the mysterious Seishiro Kikui, the head of the state organization. The latter offers the beauty, who actually never wanted to kill again, to pardon her if she infiltrates an anarchist cell on behalf of the government . Kikui gives her the task of observing the political activist and anarchist Ransui Tokunaga, who appears to be in possession of explosive secret documents. Yuki is forced to get involved in this blackmailing intrigue.

Disguised as a pale maid, Yuki is smuggled into the idealistic freethinker , who lives in poor circumstances with his sick wife, whom he once teased his brother. Little by little the maid gets to know the rebel and his political views. She realizes that Ransui, contrary to the claims of her previous employer, loves his homeland. The fighter wins the revolutionary's trust and finally takes his side. Later she learns of the real machinations of Kikui and the former attorney general Kendo Terauchi, who once staged a high treason to decimate political opponents; their careers took off as a result. Only an incriminating document, which is in the possession of the radical, can prove the inhuman activities and ultimately stop the henchmen of the state.

When Ransui tries to give an explosive speech at a political event, the bad guys in the government try to stop him by all means to prevent a scandal. They take him into custody while the wounded Yuki manages to escape with the evidence. Her target is the disaffected brother Ransuis, the doctor Shusuke Tokunaga, who lives and practices in Tokyo's Samegabashi slum , a lawless area in the Yotsuya district. The secret police follow her to the poor district, where she hides from now on. After Ransui is mistreated, tortured and infected with a fatal injection of a plague - his wife has been murdered in the meantime - Shusuke, who is also suffering from the plague, plans to blackmail the people behind the staged high treason. But Kikui is unwilling to submit to the demands of the rebels and, in turn, causes a slum area to be burned down where he suspects the explosive document. Many innocent people find such a cruel flame death.

At the end of the film, Yuki and her newfound friend Shusuke take up the fight against those responsible. She succeeds in killing a large number of police officers with her sword, including Terauchi, who has been appointed Minister of Justice, and the already wounded Kikui. In one of the last scenes of the film, the dying Shusuke asks Yuki, who is also injured, for the fatal coup de grace , which she grants him wordlessly.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was “less stringent than the first film” , but that it “still had an entertainment potential that was as tough as it was extraordinary” .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used