Shura Yukihime

The Tokugawa shogunate fell and Japan entered an enlightened democratic era. However, corruption and greed still existed in the government, the army, and even merchants during the Meiji period. The Blood Tax Riot broke out in the eighth year of the Meiji era. Elementary school teacher Kashima Tsuyoshi (played by Masaaki Daimon) and his family were attacked by rioting farmers while traveling with his family. Kashima and his son Shiro (played by Uchida Shinichi) were brutally murdered, and his wife Saya (played by Miyoko Akaza) was assaulted by the mob. After that, Xiaoye killed a gangster at the right time. After being imprisoned, she had an affair with prison guards and officials, tried every means to give birth to a daughter, named Xue Ji, and handed over the task of revenge for the family to her daughter. The inmates sympathized with Xiao Ye's experience and tried their best to entrust Xue Ji to the martial arts monk Dao Hai (played by Akira Nishimura) to practice. Twenty years later, Shura Yukihime (played by Meiko Kaji), who was burdened with great hatred, came to the world with a bloody storm... This film is adapted from the original comic book by Kazuo Koike (comic script) and Kazuo Uemura (drawing). The theme song was used by Quentin Tarantino in "Kill Bill".