Something fun. Since ‘Vindicta Venit’ has been on people's minds lately.
Lady Snowblood played in the Mary Pickford Theater last night after a brief history lesson by the film curator at Mount Pony Library of Congress Audiovisual Archives and Conservation Bunker.
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.
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