"Actor: Miyoko Akaza"

• The Bride from Hades | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Noble samurai Shinzaburo (Kojiro Hongo, Gamera) is visited one night by the beautiful courtesan Otsuyu (Miyoko Akaza, Lady Snowblood). She pleads with him to marry her and save her from life in a brothel. Instantly captivated by her beauty, Shinzaburo agrees and a cautious love affair develops, but in his infatuation, he fails to realise that Otsuyu is a ghost. His friends band together to drive off the spirit, but can the love-stricken Shinzaburo resist the haunting lure of this enchantress? Working from a script by Ugetsu's Yoshikata Yoda, original Shinobi director Satsuo Yamamoto brings this classic Japanese ghost tale to the screen with breathtaking stylistic beauty. His visualisation of the alluring female ghost prefigures A Chinese Ghost Story and greatly inspired the J-horror movement. SPECIAL FEATURES New 4K restoration Uncompressed mono PCM audio Appreciation by filmmaker and screenwriter Hiroshi Takahashi Audio commentary by critic and author Jasper Sharp Trailer Newly improved English subtitle translation

• Lady Snowblood | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Serving as a source of inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' ('Shurayuki Hime' herself Meiko Kaji even appears on the Vol.1 soundtrack!) these seminal Japanese gender-bending samurai movies directed by Toshiya Fujita are at heart a thrilling hack n' slash social satire of the strictures of the Edo-period male preserve of the samurai class... Lady Snowblood - Blizzard From The Netherworld: A band of ruthless criminals kidnap and brutalise a lone woman. Incarcerated the women survives only on her desire for revenge and purposefully gets herself pregnant so that her child will become an instrument of vengeance. Unfortunately the woman dies in childbirth and it is her daughter Yuki who is raised as an assassin knowing no family but only killing and revenge... Lady Snowblood 2 - Love Song Of Vengeance: Lady Snowblood ('Shurayuki Hime') is caught by the authorities and sentenced to death for her crimes of bloodthirsty vengeance on the behalf of her long deceased mother. However on her way to certain death at the end of a hangman's rope she is rescued by officers of the secret police who offer her freedom if she agrees a deadly and perilous mission to assassinate a band of revolutionaries...