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| Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance © 1974 Toho Co., Ltd. |
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance
(Shurayukihime Urami Renka)
Directed by Toshiya Fujita
With Meiko Kaji, Juzo Itami, Yoshio Harada
Japan, 1974, 89 minutes
DCP, color, in Japanese with English subtitles
When: Saturday, February 11, 4:30 PM
Where: Japan Society NY
333 East 47th Street, NYC
Japan Society NY's five film Meiko Kaji mini-retrospective, which begins tomorrow night with New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head, will continue with two films on Saturday, the first of which will be Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance.
Meiko Kaji took a break from her work on the Scorpion series at Toei to make a pair of bloody period swordplay films at Toho Studios, based on a manga by Kazuo Koike, the creator of Lone Wolf and Cub. The Lady Snowblood films, both of them directed by former Nikkatsu collaborator Toshiya Fujita, cast Kaji as the swordswoman Yuki, born in prison, and raised to seek vengeance on the group who raped her mother and murdered her father. Love Song of Vengeance, the sequel, sets Yuki on a different path, helping a left-wing dissident (Juzo Itami) who seeks to reform the government and expose a conspiracy between military and industrial forces which threaten the future of the nation.
18+
This film is unrated, but may only be viewed by persons 18 years of age or older.
Part of Cruel Beauty: A Romantic Weekend with Meiko Kaji
Tickets: $13/$10 seniors & students/$9 Japan Society members
Special Offers:
All Access Pass: (1 ticket for each film in the series, 5 tickets total) Save $3 per ticket. $50/$35 seniors & students/$30 Japan Society members
Double Feature Pass: (2 different films in the same transaction) Save $2 per ticket. $22/$16 seniors & students/$14 Japan Society members
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance © 1974 Toho Co., Ltd.
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