Netflix says: Revenge is sweet for Yuki (Meiko Kaji), the main character in director Toshiya Fujita's violent ballet. Yuki is the daughter of a woman who supported her by working as a prostitute after she was raped by the men who murdered her husband. When Yuki grows up, she decides that those men aren't worthy of living full and enriching lives, so she hunts them down one by one on a quest for justice.
Matt says: The Netflix description for this misleading. In actuality, after the mother’s husband was murdered and she was raped, the mother gives herself to men to have a child. She does this for the sole purpose of the child getting revenge on the people who did the crime for her, as she is imprisoned for life and can’t get revenge herself. The baby, Yuki, is trained from birth to be a murdering revenge machine; she doesn’t “decide” anything, she’s trained for that purpose. The mother dies when Yuki is a child and a woman from the prison takes over and takes Yuki to get her training from a monk. I guess the person at Netflix who wrote the description just fast-forwarded through it and banged out the best they could without seeing the movie. Whatever. Anyway… for those who liked “Kill Bill Vol. 1”, this is one of the movies that inspired Tarantino. It has all the things that made “Kill Bill Vol. 1” great: snow scene samurai sword fights, jets of squirting blood, one woman’s quest to find the four people who did her wrong, training from a Japanese master, and pure, unbridled revenge. Every violent scene ends with the aforementioned jets of squirting blood. It’s a great movie for the budget and time. I can see why Tarantino based a lot of “Kill Bill” off of it. Look, it’s a 70s Japanese samurai sword slasher/revenge flick: you know what to expect… but this is one of the better ones. 4 stars.
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