Lady Snowblood

Genre: chanbara

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Fujita, ToshiyaToshiya Fujita

Credits: Cast: Meiko Kaji, Akira Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa

Description: In 1874, a deathly-ill woman named Sayo gives birth to a baby girl in a women's prison. Sayo seduced a prison guard to conceive Yuki, her final words before for the child to be raised to carry out the vengeance against the three remaining tormentors. In Meiji 15 (1882), the child Yuki undergoes brutal training in sword fighting under the priest Dōkai to become her mother's wrath incarnate.

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