Lady Snowblood
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
An essential source of inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, Lady Snowblood is a brutal tale of revenge set in late 19th-century Japan, in which a young woman sets out to eliminate the violent criminals who murdered her parents at her birth. A bloody visual poetry.
Toshiya Fujita
Toshiya Fujita was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is well-regarded in Japan for his youth films, but is best known internationally for Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance, films not typical of his usual style.
