Lady Snowblood review

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You gotta hand it to QT, he sure makes us watch movies we'd otherwise never watch hadn't we all watched and loved Kill Bill. Lady Snowblood is yet another such film. I recently ran into a limited screening at a local arthouse movie theater and me and my girlfriend sure were stunned about all the blood fountains and severed limbs (oh and of coooourse the soundtrack from Kill Bill, how could I forget that, but it's just more or less the title song of the film). Lady Snowblood is from the mid-70s, a japanese revenge movie that is just full of what Kill Bill emulates: You have a nice woman, turned into an avenger by her mother who passes the hate on to her as a child when she died, then you have a sensei who taught her all the cruelty she's going to inflict on her targets. And oh boy what a rampage! There's plenty of slashed faces, blood spraying walls, arms flying around and the likes. But this movie is not campy, or cheap, this film is very subtle in its storytelling and the cinematography is at least in the important parts quite fitting. Kaji does a great job miming the ruthless avenging angel and in the end you walk out of the theater as a happy person who just watched one hell of a bloody samurai flick! I can recommend this film to anyone who at least closely likes what I just described above.

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Lady Snowblood review

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