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.

“‘Lady Snowblood’ only half-heartedly revels in its heroine’s bloody revenge, while focusing just as much on the tragedy of her circumstances and the absurdity of her vengeful fate.” (Little White Lies)

Monday, August 7
Doors 8:15 pm | Movie 8:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Advance tickets HERE

LADY SNOWBLOOD (Toshiya Fujita, 1973 / 97 mins / 18A / Japanese with English subtitles) A women is raised from birth for one terrible and vengeful purpose – to murder those who raped her mother and left her to rot in a women’s prison, where she died in childbirth.

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