Hello everybody! Today I will be reviewing the Lady Snow Blood movie (The first one) directed by Toshiya Fujita. So I bought this movie on Saturday at Mightyape and it finally arrived today!! One of the things which really attracted me to this film was that Kill Bill was inspired from it, and yes I have seen Kill Bill before, so it made me intrigued into some of the similarities.
So the main character Yuki(played by Meiko Kaji) is set to finish the task of killing the people who killed her father and brother, after her mother killed one but was later sent to jail and died. Already there is a similarity with Kill Bill, the task of revenge for killing loved ones. Another is how the stories are set e.g chapter 1, chapter 2 etc, and also how there's two volumes!!!
There's quite a lot of action which goes on, though comparing to the action, gorey films we see today, this film doesn't quite stack up. I think what makes it that is that this is quite an old film(70's), and I have to say that I was a bit surprised at how old the film was, I thought maybe late 80's to 90's film so at least the people who restored this film to digital did an amazing job!
Though film was filmed on quite a small budget so that could have also been a factor. The fight sequences feel a bit choreographed to me as there's some delay in the reactions, and also the blood is fake looking, though I feel like that's what almost everyone used back then. My favourite death would have to be the slicing in half of one character, that was superb as I have never seen anything like that on film before.
I don't think there's anything wrong with this film at all to be honest as the film flows quite nicely. You can see how and why this was a major influence on Kill Bill and possibly other films too. I'd have to give this film an 8/10. Probably you would want to watch this film more for the gore and storyline than the action as I feel like the action in this film is more gore than action.
Also on another note, this film breaks a barrier in the film trope. Normally women are portrayed as more beautiful but weak beings, but this film shows that women can be beautiful, but kick it all out at the same time too which is something that I really like about this film. In America this doesn't really start until later on so I think this film was ahead of its time(story wise).
Considering the budget of this film, I wonder what they could have done if they had a larger budget. The only question I have is what happens to Yuki at the end, though I think it was found out in the next film, but I can't quite remember. Though if you want me to review the next movie, then you don't need to as it's got the same tropes as this, though now Yuki is on another quest, and there's only one person she has a target on(in the beginning anyway), though I thought the storyline was a bit more boring, it still stacks up, but if you want to watch just one film then the first one is the way to go.
That's all anyway, this post is getting too long. Bye!
No comments:
Post a Comment