Lady Snowblood
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Released: 1973
Casts:
Meiko Kaji, Kô Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza, Eiji Okada, Shinichi Uchida, Takeo Chii, Noboru Nakaya, Yoshiko Nakada, Akemi Negishi, Kaoru Kusuda, Sanae Nakahara, Hôsei Komatsu, Makoto Matsuzaki, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Takehiko Ono, Hitoshi Takagi, Mayumi Maemura, Kenji Ôkura, Ichiro Kijima, Shôichi Hirose, Kai Atô