Scottish director John Maclean, of The Beat Band, has a new film coming out called Tornado - and it's like nothing you've probably seen before ...

I have seen Meiko Kaji in several films, including her "Lady Snowblood" films. They were very stylish and never dull. Here in "Wandering Ginza Butterfly", however, I was shocked by how little I cared ...

Avant-garde and blaxploitation, for example, live in the cult section. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michelle Yeoh and Meiko Kaji flex their muscles in action. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles oeuvre ...

This instrumental masterpiece was composed and arranged by the German music genius James Last. 13. The Flower Of Carnage – Meiko Kaji This is a beautiful song that you could listen to on repeat. “The ...

There are themes related to combatting racism, as one of the bikers, Mei (Meiko Kaji), has a boyfriend getting seduced by right-wing nationalism. If anything, the Alleycats are a force for good ...

The film was directed by Toshiya Fujita and stars Meiko Kaji. Lady Snowblood famously inspired Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill and explores the same themes of revenge and female rage. The scene in the ...

Hell, the theme song to Lady Snowblood was even featured in Kill Bill, and Meiko Kaji - who was both the lead actress in Lady Snowblood and sang the aforementioned theme - later claimed that ...

People might first think of Uma Thurman in Kill Bill when thinking of female action stars, but the likes of Meiko Kaji in Lady Snowblood (1973) and Angela Mao in Lady Whirlwind (1972) were clear ...

Meiko Kaji appears in the title role, as a woman wronged by a dirty police detective and sent to prison for attempting to exact her revenge; there, she orchestrates a stunning prison riot to ...

Second is its star, Lady Snowblood herself, '70s Japanese action icon Meiko Kaji. Kaji stars as the fiery head of an embattled yakuza clan, whose war against a rival gang takes on a terrifying new ...