Lady Snowblood
Directed by Toshiya FujitaYuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Lady Snowblood Ratings & Reviews
- cyberbillpDecember 3, 2025Such a serious movie. I liked it a lot. Sword fights with buckets of blood. They don't make movies like this anymore. Classic Japanese cinema.
- chas819December 29, 2025Very entertaining
- Jeffery BrookshireDecember 16, 2025The Cinematography! This movie may very well contain some of the most beautiful shots ive ever seen on film. You can watch this entire movie wiithout understanding or reading a single word. Yet, it still speaks to you, you understand exactly what is going on.
- johnrodanDecember 9, 2025Iconic visuals and music. The paper thin plot is a vehicle for seeing Meiko Kaji delivering death and deadly glares.
- Shahmar HasanbayNovember 25, 2025Tarantino is more of a great viewer than a great director. You could even say he doesn’t really have a style of his own. He remixes different genres, films, scene aesthetics, and so on to create a new form. But you can’t call that plagiarism — it’s more accurate to call it a postmodern film language. The energy of his films comes from this mixture. As for Lady Snowblood, the film’s aesthetics and visuals, its color palette, and so on were beautifully crafted. What caught my attention the most was the camerawork: the abrupt transitions between scenes, the sudden zoom-ins and zoom-outs, the close-up shots of the characters’ faces, etc. Since the film is based on a manga, its shooting style tries to capture the panel structure of the manga. As the Turks say, it was quite unconventional. The idea of the film is that revenge is never truly complete — it always gives birth to new acts of revenge.
Lady Snowblood Trivia
Lady Snowblood was released on December 1, 1973.
Lady Snowblood was directed by Toshiya Fujita.
Lady Snowblood has a runtime of 1h 37m.
Lady Snowblood was produced by Kikumaru Okuda.
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
The key characters in Lady Snowblood are Yuki Kashima (Meiko Kaji), Ryūrei Ashio (Toshio Kurosawa), Gō Kashima (Masaaki Daimon).
Lady Snowblood is rated Not Rated.
Lady Snowblood is a Thriller, Action, Drama film.
Lady Snowblood has an audience rating of 8.5 out of 10.