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Lady Snowblood Lady Snowblood: love song of vengeance / Toho Company, Limited ; directed by Toshiya Fujita ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; original authors, Kazuo Koike, Kazuo Kamimura ; screenplay by Norio Osada.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2571D | The Criterion Collection | (container)CC2571D-1 | The Criterion Collection | (disc 1)CC2571D-2 | The Criterion Collection | (disc 2)Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 790. | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 791.Publisher: [Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]Edition: Two-DVD special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (approximately 186 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inchesContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681430966
  • 1681430967
Other title:
  • The complete Lady Snowblood
  • Lady Snowblood
  • Lady Snowblood : love song of vengeance
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Koike, Kazuo, 1936- Shurayukihime
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Kamimura, Kazuo. Shurayukihime
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc 1. Lady Snowblood / Toho Company, Limited ; directed by Toshiya Fujita ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; original authors, Kazuo Koike, Kazuo Kamimura ; screenplay by Norio Osada -- Disc two. Lady Snowblood: love song of vengeance / Toho Company, Limited ; directed by Toshiya Fujita ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; original authors, Kazuo Koike, Kazuo Kamimura ; screenplay by Norio Osada, Kiyohide Ohara.
Production credits:
  • Lady Snowblood: directed by Toshiya Fujita ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; original authors, Kazuo Koike, Kazuo Kamimura ; screenplay by Norio Osada.Cinematography by Masaki Tamura ; music by Masaaki Hirao ; edited by Osamu Inoue.
Cast: Lady Snowblood: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza, Shinichi Uchida, Takeo Chii, Noboru Nakaya, Yoshiko Nakada, Akemi Negishi, Kaoru Kusuda, Maymi Maemura, Eiji Okada, Ko Nishimura.Cast: Lady Snowblood : love song of vengeance: Meiko Kaji, Juzo Itami, Yoshio Harada, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Shin Kishida, Koji Nanbara, Rinichi Yamamoto, Toru Abe.Summary: A young woman, trained from childhood as an assassin and hellbent on revenge for her father's murder and her mother's rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, the influential cult classic Lady Snowblood and set in late nineteenth century Japan, is a bloody, beautiful extravaganza composed of one elegant widescreen composition.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD WORLD Lady Sno v. 1 Available 33111008645000
Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD WORLD Lady Sno v. 2 Available 33111008645018
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A young woman, trained from childhood as an assassin and hellbent on revenge for her father's murder and her mother's rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, the pair of influential cult classics Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance, set in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan, respectively, are bloody, beautiful extravaganzas composed of one elegant widescreen composition

Lady Snowblood originally released as a motion picture in 1973.

Lady Snowblood : love song of vengeance originally released as a motion picture in 1974.

Widescreen (2.35:1).

Special edition features: new interviews with Kazuo Koike, the writer of the manga that inspired the films, and screenwriter Norio Osada; trailers. An essay "Flowers of Carnage" by critic Howard Hampton included in container insert.

Disc 1. Lady Snowblood / Toho Company, Limited ; directed by Toshiya Fujita ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; original authors, Kazuo Koike, Kazuo Kamimura ; screenplay by Norio Osada -- Disc two. Lady Snowblood: love song of vengeance / Toho Company, Limited ; directed by Toshiya Fujita ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; original authors, Kazuo Koike, Kazuo Kamimura ; screenplay by Norio Osada, Kiyohide Ohara.

Lady Snowblood: directed by Toshiya Fujita ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; original authors, Kazuo Koike, Kazuo Kamimura ; screenplay by Norio Osada.Cinematography by Masaki Tamura ; music by Masaaki Hirao ; edited by Osamu Inoue.

Lady Snowblood: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza, Shinichi Uchida, Takeo Chii, Noboru Nakaya, Yoshiko Nakada, Akemi Negishi, Kaoru Kusuda, Maymi Maemura, Eiji Okada, Ko Nishimura.

Lady Snowblood : love song of vengeance: Meiko Kaji, Juzo Itami, Yoshio Harada, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Shin Kishida, Koji Nanbara, Rinichi Yamamoto, Toru Abe.

A young woman, trained from childhood as an assassin and hellbent on revenge for her father's murder and her mother's rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, the influential cult classic Lady Snowblood and set in late nineteenth century Japan, is a bloody, beautiful extravaganza composed of one elegant widescreen composition.

DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.

In Japanese with English subtitles.

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