The Complete Lady Snowblood (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

The Japanese combine the beautiful with the brutal and this movie follows that philosophy with these widescreen 2:35:1 displays of fountaining blood and brilliantly choreographed fight scenes. Lady Snowblood exacts revenge on a corrupt core of Japanese elites and the men who raped and murdered her family and the plot is surprisingly good in between the action. You won’t be bored!

Lady Snowblood is brilliant!Ist film is very good, where as the 2nd is not as good as the first. Brilliant action blood spraying scenes.First time ever watched it, really enjoyed it !It's far superior to Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

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Lady Snowblood is an under-represented heroine in the pantheon of heroes. Her story is bizarre, unsettling, horrifying and deliriously "beautiful" to watch.It would be a huge mistake to think that these films are merely just hack and slash flicks with little to say other than "Ha, chopped off an arm..do you like that?". The themes and ideas represented in the films are more than just simple revenge fare for an audience that is baying for blood, you will get that of course. There is plenty of swift swordswomanship and those delicious sprays of blood that make this films a visual feast for those shots alone, but there is also a lot of things being said and I don't want to get pretentious or soap boxy, but I will say that if you are a woman ever wronged this is a film you must watch, it's meant more to me than pitiful car based suicide pacts ever could, and that if you know your stuff when it comes to the old politics and all of that nasty sounding jazz the second film will give you a lot to think about and to cheer for. For the rest there is imagery and sound coming together for films that could be taken on any level you wish to take, go deep and research some of the things you see or stick it on just to cheer on as the Blizzard from the Netherworlds blasts the wicked with righteous indignation and annihilates the evil doers with a blade as sharp as winter...Also play "I'm sure Saw him/her/they in that other one, what was it called..." if you are familiar with films of that much loved period of film making.

Beware, Blu Ray won't play on a UK PS5, I thought Blu-Rays were supposed to be region-less.

This won't play on my PS4, I'm in UK other people report no problem. Any advice please, are others using a dvd player?