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Lady Snowblood
· 1973

Lady Snowblood

Toshiya Fujita
revenge trauma and legacy vengeance bred through parentage cycle of violence family destruction
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Synopsis

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

This Film Influenced

→ Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

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