Lady Snowblood (manga)
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The cover of Vol. 1 of the Dark Horse Comics version.
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修羅雪姫 (Shurayuki-hime) |
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| Genre | Chanbara |
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| Written by | Kazuo Koike |
| Illustrated by | Kazuo Kamimura |
| Published by | Shueisha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Weekly Playboy |
| Original run | 1972 – 1973 |
| Volumes | 4 |
Lady Snowblood (Japanese: 修羅雪姫 Hepburn: Shurayuki-hime?) is a manga written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Kazuo Kamimura, and serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Playboy. It was translated into English and published in four volumes by Dark Horse Comics between 2005 and 2006.
Lady Snowblood centers around the title character, an assassin who seeks vengeance against the bandits who raped her mother and murdered her father, often using her sexual appeal as a weapon.
The manga was adapted into a live-action feature film of the same name starring Meiko Kaji in 1973. It was followed by Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance in 1974. In 2001, the manga was reimagined as the science fiction action film The Princess Blade, starring Yumiko Shaku and Hideaki Ito.
The Japanese title Shurayuki-hime is a pun on Snow White's Japanese name (白雪姫 Shirayuki-hime?, "Princess Snow-White"). The word Shura comes to mean Asura, semi-divine beings consumed in the act of violence and unresolvable conflict, and the allusion of those that live lives forever involving such a fate. The title was translated as Lady Snowblood because Asura is associated with the term shuraba "scene of a great battle" or "scene of carnage".
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