Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films draw heavily from this '70s Japanese action star's work, particularly when it comes to ...

Three of the 1970s Japanese icon's greatest, grungiest films show how the grindhouse rivals the arthouse for sheer filmmaking flair. 1973’s “Lady Snowblood” is probably the most “respectable” of the ...

Meiko Kaji is pretty deadly as "Lady Snowblood." (Toho Film) "LADY SNOWBLOOD" 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30; 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 1 "KILL BILL, VOL. 1" 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1; Northwest Film Center ...

As training montages go, there are few that can equal Lady Snowblood (1973). Yuki, the eight-year-old daughter of a murder convict and an unknown father, is being pummelled into shape by her ruthless ...

Bloody violence becomes poetry in Toshiya Fujita's hugely influential cult classic Lady Snowblood. A stylized dance of carnage set in the last days of feudal Japan, in which a young woman walks the ...

'70s Week: The '70s saw women kicking ass like never before — two of them cut an especially spectacular trail that bleeds a clear path through the last 50 years of action movies. Women have been ...

30 years after Japanese moviegoers first heard “The Flower of Carnage,” the theme song of Toshio Fujita’s “Lady Snowblood” sung by star Meiko Kaji, it came to mainstream Western audiences via Quentin ...