Lady Snowblood
– Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals...
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
01 Dec 1973
Japanese, English
Toshiya Fujita
Kazuo Kamimura (story), Kazuo Koike (story), Norio Osada (screenplay)
Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Though she dies in childbirth, she makes sure that the child will be raised as an assassin to kill the criminals who destroyed her family. Young Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Toho Company Ltd.