Meiko Kaji is pretty deadly as "Lady Snowblood." (Toho Film) "LADY SNOWBLOOD" 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30; 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 1 "KILL BILL, VOL. 1" 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1; Northwest Film Center ...

As training montages go, there are few that can equal Lady Snowblood (1973). Yuki, the eight-year-old daughter of a murder convict and an unknown father, is being pummelled into shape by her ruthless ...

Three of the 1970s Japanese icon's greatest, grungiest films show how the grindhouse rivals the arthouse for sheer filmmaking flair. 1973’s “Lady Snowblood” is probably the most “respectable” of the ...

In “Lady Snowblood” and its sequel, “Love Song of Vengeance,” Kaji is both more and less than human, a supernaturally talented assassion born to avenge the rape of her mother and the murder of her ...

"Yuki, you were born for vengeance, poor child – a child of the netherworld." These words, a mixture of defiance and despair, are the first from a mother to her infant daughter. They’re whispered to ...

Bloody violence becomes poetry in Toshiya Fujita's hugely influential cult classic Lady Snowblood. A stylized dance of carnage set in the last days of feudal Japan, in which a young woman walks the ...

Bloody revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in this stunning action thriller by Toshiya Fujita. A major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” saga, this endlessly inventive film, ...

30 years after Japanese moviegoers first heard “The Flower of Carnage,” the theme song of Toshio Fujita’s “Lady Snowblood” sung by star Meiko Kaji, it came to mainstream Western audiences via Quentin ...