The complete Lady Snowblood / Toho Eigo Co., Ltd.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Fujita, Toshiya, 1932-1997, film director.
• Okuda, Kikumaru, film producer.
• Osada, Norio, 1942- screenwriter.
• Ōhara, Kiyohide, screenwriter.
• Kaji, Meiko, actor.
• Kurosawa, Toshio, actor.
• Daimon, Masaaki, actor.
• Akaza, Miyoko, 1944- actor.
• Uchida, Shinichi, actor.
• Chii, Takeo, 1942-2012, actor.
• Nakaya, Noboru, 1929-2006, actor.
• Nakada, Yoshiko, 1953- actor.
• Negishi, Akemi, 1934-2008, actor.
• Kusuda, Kaoru, actor.
• Nakahara, Sanae, 1935-2012, actor.
• Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995, actor.
• Nishimura, Kō, actor.
• Maemura, Mayumi, actor.
• Harada, Yoshio, 1940-2011, actor.
• Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935-2025, actor.
• Kishida, Shin, 1939-1982, actor.
• Nanbara, Kōji, 1927-2001, actor.
• Yamamoto, Rinichi, 1927-1980, actor.
• Abe, Tōru, 1917-1993, actor.
• Mizoguchi, Shunsuke, actor.
• Hamada, Akira, 1941- actor.
• Hirose, Masasuke, actor.
• Itami, Jūzō, 1933-1997, actor.
• Tamura, Masaki, 1939-2018, director of photography.
• Satsuya, Kazuo, production designer.
• Hirao, Masaaki, 1937-2017, composer (expression).
• Hirose, Kenjirō (Composer), composer (expression).
• Inoue, Osamu, 1932- editor of moving image work.
• Suzuki, Tatsuo, 1935- director of photography.
• Higuchi, Yukio, production designer.
• Hampton, Howard, 1958- writer of supplementary textual content.
• Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.
• Tokyo Eiga Co., Ltd., production company.
• Janus Films, film distributor.
• Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
• Fujita, Toshiya, 1932-1997
• Kaji, Meiko
• Kurosawa, Toshio
• Akaza, Miyoko, 1944-
• Chii, Takeo, 1942-2012
• Nakada, Yoshiko, 1953-
• Negishi, Akemi, 1934-2008
• Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995
• Nishimura, Kō
• Harada, Yoshio, 1940-2011
• Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935-
• Nanbara, Kōji, 1927-2001
• Yamamoto, Rinichi, 1927-1980
• Abe, Tōru, 1917-1993
• Itami, Jūzō, 1933-1997
• Tamura, Masaki, 1939-
• 井上治, 1932- editor of moving image work.
• Suzuki, Tatsuo, 1935-
• 東宝株式会社, production company.

Series:

• Criterion collection ; 790.
• Criterion collection ; 791.
• The Criterion collection ; 790
• The Criterion collection ; 791

Language:

• English
• Japanese

Subjects (All):

• Koike, Kazuo, 1936-2019.
• History.
• Martial arts.
• Women martial artists.
• Japan.
• Koike, Kazuo, 1936-2019--Film adaptations.
• Kamimura, Kazuo--Film adaptations.
• Women martial artists--Japan--Drama.
• Revenge--Drama.
• Revenge.
• Martial arts--Drama.
• Japan--History--Meiji period, 1868-1912--Drama.

Genre:

• Drama.
• Film adaptations.
• Martial arts films.
• Action and adventure films.
• Samurai films.
• Feature films.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
• Motion pictures, Japanese.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 2 videodiscs (approximately 186 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
• DVD video 4 3/4 in.

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition.

Other Title:

Complete Lady Snow Blood

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The Criterion Collection, [2016]

Language Note:

In Japanese; optional subtitles in English.

System Details:

• DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
• digital optical monaural Dolby Digital 1.0
• widescreen (2.35:1)
• NTSC
• video file DVD video region 1

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.

Contents:

• Disc 1. Shurayukihime = Lady Snowblood (97 min.) / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; a Tokyo Eiga Co., Ltd production ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; screenplay by Norio Osada ; directed by Toshiya Fujita
• Disc two. Shurayukihime urami koiuta = $t Lady Snowblood: love song of vengeance (89 min.) / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; a Tokyo Eiga Co., Ltd production ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; screenplay by Norio Osada and Kiyohide Ohara ; directed by Toshiya Fujita.
• Disc 1. 修羅雪姬 = Lady Snowblood (97 min.) / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; a Tokyo Eiga Co., Ltd production ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; screenplay by Norio Osada ; directed by Toshiya Fujita
• Disc two. 修羅雪姬怨み恋歌 = $t Lady Snowblood: love song of vengeance (89 min.) / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; a Tokyo Eiga Co., Ltd production ; produced by Kikumaru Okuda ; screenplay by Norio Osada and Kiyohide Ohara ; directed by Toshiya Fujita.

Participant:

• Lady Snowblood: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza, Shinichi Uchida, Takeo Chii, Noboru Nakaya, Yoshiko Nakada, Akemi Negishi, Kaoru Kusuda, Sanae Nakahara, Eiji Okada, Ko Nishimura, Maymi Maemura.
• Lady Snowblood : love song of vengeance: Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Shin Kishida, Koji Nanbara, Rinichi Yamamoto, Toru Abe, Shunsuke Mizoguchi, Akira Hamada, Masasuke Hirose, Juzo Itami.

Credits:

• Lady Snowblood: cinematography, Masaki Tamura; production design, Kzuo Satsuya; music, Masaaki Hirao; editor, Osamu Inoue.
• Lady Snowblood : love song of vengeance: cinematography, Tatsuo Suzuki; production design, Yukio Higuchi; music, Kenjiro Hirose; editor, Osamu Inoue.

Notes:

• Title from container.
• Videodisc release of motion pictures produced in 1973 (Lady Snowblood) and 1974 (Lady Snowblood : love song of vengeance).
• Based on manga written by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura.
• Special features: Disc 1: Kazuo Koike (new interview with the writer of the manga that inspired the films); Norio Osada (the screenwriter discusses his adaptation of the manga into two films); Trailer. Disc 2: Trailer. An essay "Flowers of Carnage" by critic Howard Hampton included in container insert.

Related Work:

• Motion picture adaptation of: Koike, Kazuo, 1936-2019. Shurayukihime.
• Motion picture adaptation of: Kamimura, Kazuo. Shurayukihime.
• Motion picture adaptation of: 小池一夫, 1936-2019. Shurayukihime.
• Motion picture adaptation of: 上村一夫. Shurayukihime.

Contains:

• Container of: Shurayukihime (Motion picture)
• Container of: Shurayukihime urami koiuta (Motion picture)
• Lady Snowblood
• Lady Snowblood, love song of vengeance
• Lady Snowblood 2.
• Container of: 修羅雪姬
• Container of: 修羅雪姬 怨み恋歌

ISBN:

• 9781681430966
• 1681430967

OCLC:

933530235

Publisher Number:

• 715515165617 (set)
• CC2571D The Criterion Collection (container)
• CC2571D-1 The Criterion Collection (disc 1)
• CC2571D-2 The Criterion Collection (disc 2)