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Lady Snowblood:
Love Song of Vengeance
Lady Snowblood:; Love Song of Vengeance
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Toshiya Fujita
Screenplay by	Norio Osada; Kiyohide Ohara;
Based on	Lady Snowblood; by Kazuo Koike; Kazuo Kamimura;
Produced by	Kikumaru Okuda
Starring	Meiko Kaji; Yoshio Harada; Juzo Itami; Kazuko Yoshiyuki;
Cinematography	Tatsuo Suzuki
Edited by	Osamu Inoue
Music by	Kenjiro Hirose
Production; company	Tokyo Eiga
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	15 June 1974 (Japan);
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (Japanese: 修羅雪姫怨み恋歌, Hepburn: Shurayuki-hime - Urami renka) is a 1974 Japanese film directed by Toshiya Fujita and starring Meiko Kaji.^[1] It is a sequel to the 1973 film Lady Snowblood, itself an adaptation of the manga series of the same name by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura.^[3]

Plot

Yuki Kashima is surrounded by policemen on a beach. She fights and kills several of them but is overwhelmed. She is quickly tried and sentenced to death by hanging, but suddenly rescued by the mysterious Seishiro Kikui, head of Secret Police. Inside his headquarters, he propositions Yuki to spy on an "enemy of the State", the anarchist Ransui Tokunaga. Ransui is in possession of a critical document which Seishiro seems quite obsessed with, deeming it highly dangerous to the stability of the government. If Yuki can obtain and deliver the document to Seishiro, he will grant her immunity from her charges.

Yuki infiltrates Ransui's home posing as a maid, and sets about looking for the document. But the more she observes Ransui, the more she questions the path Seishiro has put her on. When Ransui confides in Yuki, knowing full well who she is, asking her to deliver the document to his brother Shusuke, Yuki will be forced to decide her allegiance.

Cast

Meiko Kaji as Yuki Kashima, Lady Snowblood
Juzo Itami as Ransui Tokunaga
Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Aya Tokunaga
Yoshio Harada as Shusuke Tokunaga
Shin Kishida as Seishiro Kikui
Toru Abe as Kendo Terauchi

^[1]^[2]

Staff

Cinematography - Tatsuo Suzuki
Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi

Production

Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance was greenlit after the moderate financial success of the first film. As screenwriter Norio Osada had approached the original film as a standalone adaptation, the second film freed him to write an original story not directly based on the manga.^[4] In later years, Osada deemed the script unsatisfactory, partly owing to different creative approaches between him, co-writer Kiyohide Ohara and director Toshiya Fujita; however, he felt that the script's shortcomings also enabled Fujita to make the film more in his own style, which he had not been able to do on the first film.^[4] The anarchist Ransui Tokunaga was based on Kōtoku Shūsui.^[4]

Release

Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance was released theatrically in Japan on 15 June 1974 where it was distributed by Toho.^[1] The film was released on DVD in the United States by AnimEigo with English-language subtitles on March 24, 1998.^[1] The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection along with its predecessor, Lady Snowblood (1973), as The Complete Lady Snowblood.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Galbraith IV 2008, p. 297.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance". Criterion Collection. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
^ "修羅雪姫怨み恋歌". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Osada, Norio (2016). Killer Construction: Norio Osada on Lady Snowblood (DVD). The Criterion Collection. Event occurs at 15:30–16:30, 18:30–20.
^ "The Complete Lady Snowblood". Criterion Collection. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

Sources

Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.

External links

Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance at IMDb
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance at Rotten Tomatoes
The Complete Lady Snowblood: Flowers of Carnage an essay by Howard Hampton at the Criterion Collection

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008297-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Galbraith IV 2008, p. 297.

[cc-cast-2] "Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance". Criterion Collection. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

[3] "修羅雪姫怨み恋歌". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 17 November 2020.

[:0-4] Osada, Norio (2016). Killer Construction: Norio Osada on Lady Snowblood (DVD). The Criterion Collection. Event occurs at 15:30–16:30, 18:30–20.

[5] "The Complete Lady Snowblood". Criterion Collection. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

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-Kashima Yuki is surrounded by policemen on a beach. She fights and kills several of them but is overwhelmed. She is quickly tried and sentenced to death by hanging, but suddenly rescued by the mysterious Kikui Seishiro, head of [[Secret Police]]. Inside his headquarters, he propositions Kashima to spy on an "enemy of the State", the [[anarchist]] Tokunaga Ransui. Ransui is in possession of a critical document which Kikui seems quite obsessed with, deeming it highly dangerous to the stability of the government. If Kashima can obtain and deliver the document to Kikui, he will grant her immunity from her charges.
+Yuki Kashima is surrounded by policemen on a beach. She fights and kills several of them but is overwhelmed. She is quickly tried and sentenced to death by hanging, but suddenly rescued by the mysterious Seishiro Kikui, head of [[Secret Police]]. Inside his headquarters, he propositions Yuki to spy on an "enemy of the State", the [[anarchist]] Ransui Tokunaga. Ransui is in possession of a critical document which Seishiro seems quite obsessed with, deeming it highly dangerous to the stability of the government. If Yuki can obtain and deliver the document to Seishiro, he will grant her immunity from her charges.
-Kashima infiltrates Ransui's home posing as a maid, and sets about looking for the document. But the more she observes Ransui, the more she questions the path Kikui has put her on. When Ransui confides in Yuki, knowing full well who she is, asking her to deliver the document to his brother Shusuke, Kashima will be forced to decide her allegiance.
+Yuki infiltrates Ransui's home posing as a maid, and sets about looking for the document. But the more she observes Ransui, the more she questions the path Seishiro has put her on. When Ransui confides in Yuki, knowing full well who she is, asking her to deliver the document to his brother Shusuke, Yuki will be forced to decide her allegiance.
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+==Staff==
+* Cinematography - [[Tatsuo Suzuki (cinematographer)|Tatsuo Suzuki]]
+* Sword fight arranger - [[Kunishirō Hayashi]]
 ==Production==
+''Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance'' was greenlit after the moderate financial success of the first film. As screenwriter Norio Osada had approached the original film as a standalone adaptation, the second film freed him to write an original story not directly based on the manga.<ref name=":0">{{Cite AV media |title=Killer Construction: Norio Osada on Lady Snowblood |date=2016 |last=Osada |first=Norio |type=DVD |language=en |publisher=[[The Criterion Collection]] |time=15:30–16:30, 18:30–20}}</ref> In later years, Osada deemed the script unsatisfactory, partly owing to different creative approaches between him, co-writer Kiyohide Ohara and director [[Toshiya Fujita (director)|Toshiya Fujita]]; however, he felt that the script's shortcomings also enabled Fujita to make the film more in his own style, which he had not been able to do on the first film.<ref name=":0" /> The anarchist Ransui Tokunaga was based on [[Kōtoku Shūsui]].<ref name=":0" />
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 ==Release==
 ''Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance'' was released theatrically in Japan on 15 June 1974 where it was distributed by [[Toho]].{{sfn|Galbraith IV|2008|p=297}}
-The film was released on DVD in the United States by AnimEigo with English-language subtitles on March 24, 1998.{{sfn|Galbraith IV|2008|p=297}} The film was released on blu-ray and DVD by the [[Criterion Collection]] along with its prequel ''[[Lady Snowblood]]'' (1973) as ''The Complete Lady Snowblood''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1154-the-complete-lady-snowblood|publisher=Criterion Collection|title=The Complete Lady Snowblood|accessdate=19 March 2017}}</ref>
+The film was released on [[DVD]] in the United States by AnimEigo with English-language subtitles on March 24, 1998.{{sfn|Galbraith IV|2008|p=297}} The film was released on [[Blu-ray]] and DVD by [[the Criterion Collection]] along with its predecessor, ''Lady Snowblood'' (1973), as ''The Complete Lady Snowblood''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1154-the-complete-lady-snowblood|publisher=Criterion Collection|title=The Complete Lady Snowblood|access-date=19 March 2017}}</ref>
 == References ==
+{{reflist}}
-===Footnotes===
-{{reflist|30em}}
 ===Sources===
 {{Refbegin}}
-* {{cite book |last=Galbraith IV |first=Stuart |title=The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography  |year=2008 |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |isbn=1461673747|ref=harv}}
+* {{cite book |last=Galbraith IV |first=Stuart |title=The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography  |year=2008 |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |isbn=978-1461673743}}
 {{refend}}
 ==External links==
 * {{IMDb title|0072157}}
+* {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/lady_snowblood_love_song_of_vengeance}}
-* {{Allmovie title|303612|Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance}}
+*[https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3856-the-complete-lady-snowblood-flowers-of-carnage ''The Complete Lady Snowblood: Flowers of Carnage''] an essay by Howard Hampton at the [[Criterion Collection]]
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