The Complete Lady Snowblood Criterion Collection Blu-ray

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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 Fujita’s 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 Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, and both of Fujita’s films remain cornerstones of Asian action cinema.

Collector’s Set Includes

Lady Snowblood
Director: Toshiya Fujita 1973
Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood.

Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance
Director: Toshiya Fujita 1974
More politically minded than the original, Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance is full of exciting plot turns and ingenious action sequences.

Special Features

• New 2K digital restorations of both films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
• New interviews with Kazuo Koike, the writer of the manga that inspired the films, and screenwriter Norio Osada
• Trailers
• New English subtitle translations
• Essay by critic Howard Hampton
• New cover by Angie Wang

Specifications

• Runtime:
  186 minutes
• Aspect Ratio:
  2.35:1, Widescreen
• Subtitles:
  English
• Language:
  Japanese