Lady Snowblood – Perisphere

The Sound & Fury of Lady Snowblood

By Matt Levine May 29, 2023 May 30, 2023 A Dish Best Served Cold

|Matthew Tchepikova-Treon| The year: Meiji 7 (1874). Inside a Tokyo prison during a snowstorm, we hear sharp winds, a dying woman’s anguished howling, and the cries of a newborn baby girl: Yuki. Outside, through a wood-barred window, white snow falls… Continue reading

All I Know is Violence – The False Catharsis of Lady Snowblood

By Matt Levine May 28, 2023 May 28, 2023 A Dish Best Served Cold

Lady Snowblood (Meiko Kaji) in extreme closeup, her face is flecked with blood, she is looking upward past the camera.

|Rowan Smith| Despite my strong desire to fight against the impulse throughout my teens and twenties, I’ve always been governed more by emotion than logic. I cannot deny that I become bloodthirsty when I am wronged, despite the god knows how many revenge-centric films… Continue reading

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