Japan Synopsis
修羅雪姫
“I threw away my tears. I gave up my heart. I can't even fall in love. A flower of resentment that blooms sadly…..”
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.
Audience Engagement
312 audience reviews — more than 90% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (90th percentile) outruns trending popularity (60th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Lady Snowblood. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.
Action + Crime in Japan
188 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Action and Crime genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Lady Snowblood itself).
The 1972–1974 Japan Window
Among 69 Japan films we catalog from this window, Lady Snowblood places #5 — near the top of its class.
The 1970s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1970s in Japan, 197 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Lady Snowblood premiered alongside 21 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 21 other Japan films in 1973.
The 405th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Lady Snowblood, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- blood bath · 3
- rape and revenge · 12
- meiji period · 7
- japan · 454
- revenge · 210
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,042 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (77th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.7 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Action productions specifically: #468 of 1,714 (top 27%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Spoken Languages | English, Japanese |
| Production Companies | Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd., TOHO |
| Runtime | 1h 37m |
| Release Date | December 1, 1973 |
| IMDb | tt0158714 |