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Title:

The complete Lady Snowblood : Lady Snowblood = Shurayuki-hime; Lady Snowblood: love song of vengeance = Shurayuki-hime urami renga.

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

2 videodiscs (approximately 186 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Women martial artists--Japan--Drama.
Female assassins--Japan--Drama.
Revenge--Drama.
Martial arts--Drama.
Japan--History--Meiji period, 1868-1912--Drama.
Martial arts films.
Action and adventure films.
Samurai films.
Feature films.
Feature films--Japan.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Fujita, Toshiya, 1932-1997, film director.
Osada, Norio, screenwriter.
Ohara, Kiyohide, screenwriter.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Koike, Kazuo, 1936- Shurayukihime.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Kamimura, Kazuo. Shurayukihime.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Other Titles:

Container of (work): Shurayukihime (Motion picture)
Container of (work): Shurayukihime urami renga (Motion picture)
Lady Snowblood.
Lady Snowblood : love song of vengeance.

Notes:

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. 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.

Contents:

Disc 1. Lady Snowblood (1973 ; 97 min.) / Toho Co., Ltd. ; directed by Toshiya Fujita ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; original authors, Kazuo Koike, Kazuo Kamimura ; screenplay by Norio Osada -- Disc 2. Lady Snowblood: love song of vengeance (1974 ; 89 min.) / Toho Co., Ltd. ; directed by Toshiya Fujita ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; original authors, Kazuo Koike, Kazuo Kamimura ; screenplay by Norio Osada, Kiyohide Ohara.

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.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 790.
Criterion collection ; 791.

ISBN:

1681430967
9781681430966

UPC:

715515165617

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)