Dumpling Box Cinema: Lady Snowblood (1973)

Enjoy your box of dumplings, fresh from Daisy Dumplings House, while watching the best of Japanese cinema on our big screen.

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Directed by Toshiya Fujita. Action/Drama/Thriller. 1h 37mins.

A young girl is born and raised to be an instrument of revenge.

Like Kill Bill Vol. 1, Lady Snowblood is also about a woman seeking revenge on a gang of criminals. However, besides sharing the same broad theme as Tarantino’s film, Lady Snowblood’s Yuki character also served as the inspiration for one of Kill Bill Vol. 1’s main characters, O-Ren Ishii. Played by Lucy Liu, O-Ren Ishii’s resemblance to Yuki — the lead character in Lady Snowblood — may be most apparent during the duel in the snow between O-Ren Ishii and The Bride. Tarantino has made no secret of his admiration for this bloody Japanese samurai revenge film and he even borrowed some of the film’s music for the soundtrack of Kill Bill Vol. 1.