If you loved Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71, try Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Toshiya Fujita, and they both carry the raw mood tag, and they sit in Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance is
Prison transport, Meiji Japan. Winter wind. A single cough. Lady Snowblood, spared execution, now hunts insurgents for the government. Her reward is a chance at real freedom, if she lives long enough. Fujita finds fresh blood in the well of righteous vengeance.
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