REEL ODDITIES: LADY SNOWBLOOD

June 5, 12, 19, 26, 2024
Reel Oddities: Lady Snowblood
Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood. A major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, this endlessly inventive film, set in late nineteenth-century Japan, charts the single-minded path of vengeance taken by a young woman (Meiko Kaji) whose parents were the unfortunate victims of a gang of brutal criminals. Fujita creates a wildly entertaining action film of remarkable craft, an effortless balancing act between beauty and violence.
Dir: Toshiya Fujita / 1973 / Japan / 97 min

SCREENING: WED 6/5 7PM; WED 6/12 7PM; WED 6/19 7PM; WED 6/26 7PM