Lady Snowblood (film)

Lady Snowblood , Shurayukihime? is a 1973 Japanese action thriller film directed by Toshiya Fujita and starring Meiko Kaji. It is based on a manga called Shurayukihime, recounting the tale of Yuki, a woman who seeks vengeance upon three people who raped her mother and killed her mothers husband and son.

A woman blocks the path of several men and a rickshaw, and kills them using a sword concealed in the handle of an umbrella. She tells the last man to die, Shirayama, that her name is Shura Yuki Hime. She appears in a poor village looking for a man called Matsuemon, the leader of an underground organization, and asks him to find four people for her, having killed Shirayama for him.In 1873, a teacher, his wife Sayo, and their son are attacked by four criminals. A woman named Kitahama Okono holds Sayo while the three men, Takemura Banz, Shokei Tokuichi, and Tsukamoto Gishir murder the teacher and his son and rape Sayo. Tokuichi secretly takes Sayo far away to work for him. Sayo kills him with a knife and goes to prison. ........

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