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"You've made an unbreakable vow. In the name of vengeance, you must foreswear all human emotions, all love and hate, everything." Your basic all-inclusive vow, then? Got it. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out the major influence for Tarantino's Kill Bill Duology, Lady Snowblood (1973). Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 172 – Lady Snowblood (1973) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https://youtube.com/gruesomemagazine Synopsis: A young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family Director: Toshiya Fujita Writers: Norio Osada (screenplay); Kazuo Kamimura (manga illustrator) & Kazuo Koike (manga writer) Cinematographer: Masaki Tamura Selected cast: Meiko Kaji as Yuki Kashima ("Lady Snowblood") Mayumi Maemura as young Yuki Kō Nishimura as Dōkai the priest Toshio Kurosawa as Ryūrei Ashio Masaaki Daimon as Gō Kashima Miyoko Akaza as Sayo Kashima Eiji Okada as Gishirō Tsukamoto Sanae Nakahara as Okono Kitahama Noboru Nakaya as Banzō Takemura Takeo Chii as Shokei Tokuichi Hitoshi Takagi as Matsuemon Akemi Negishi as Tajire no Okiku Yoshiko Nakada as Kobue Takemura Rinichi Yamamoto as Maruyama Lady Snowblood , the horror-adjacent inspiration for Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) & Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), is Jeff's pick and he loves this movie, describing it as a visual feast with a non-traditional story structure incorporating Japanese culture and history. It is so much fun! Seeing Lady Snowblood for the first time with excellent visual quality, Bill is completely absorbed in the film. He was already familiar with the lead actress, Meiko Kaji, from Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972), which he also loved, and he loves her performance. It's the kind of performance the viewer can read a lot into. He describes the character and Kaji's performan
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