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    ██   MOVIE.NAME.....: Lady Snowblood / Shurayukihime                 ██
    ██   MOVIE.YEAR.....: 1973                                           ██
    ██   THEATRE/STV....: THEATRE                                        ██
    ██   IMDB.RATING....: 8.5/10 (78 votes)                              ██
    ██  ·────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────·   ██
    ██   XViD.RELEASE...: 16 Feb. '04                                    ██
    ██   DVD.RELEASE....: 00 ___. '01                                    ██
    ██  ·────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────·   ██
    ██   LANGUAGES......: Japanese                                       ██
    ██   SUBTITLES......: YES, English                                   ██
    ██  ·────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────·   ██
    ██   RESOLUTION.....: 608x256 pixels                                 ██
    ██   F.P.S..........: 25 FPS                                         ██
    ██   ASPECT.RATIO...: 2.35 @ 16:9                                    ██
    ██   VIDEO.CODEC....: XviD                                           ██
    ██   VIDEO.BITRATE..: 905Kbits                                       ██
    ██   AUDIO.SPECS....: VBR .mp3 @ 96Kbps (mono)                       ██
    ██  ·────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────·   ██
    ██ ■ RUNTIME........: 97 minutes                                ▄  ■ ██
    ██▌  SIZE...........: 696 MB (49f)                           ▄      ███
    ██▀  FILENAME.......: wthd-lsnowb.*                            ■  █████
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   ██   IMDB.URL.......: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0158714/            ██
    ██  ·────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────·   ██
    ██   GENRE..........: Drama, Horror                                  ██
    ██   TAGLINE........: N/A                                            ██
    ██  ·────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────·   ██
    ██   PLOT.OUTLINE...:                                                ██
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    ██   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. Though she dies in childbirth,   ██
    ██   she makes sure that the child will be raised as an assassin     ██
    ██   to kill the criminals who destroyed her family. Young Yuki      ██
    ██   never knows the love of a family but only killing and           ██
    ██   revenge.                                                        ██
    ██                                                                   ██
    ██   CAST...........:                                                ██
    ██                                                                   ██
    ██      Meiko Kaji --------------- Yuki                              ██
    ██      K⌠ Nishimura ------------- N/A                               ██
    ██      Toshio Kurosawa ---------- N/A                               ██
    ██      Masaaki Daimon ----------- N/A                               ██
    ██      Miyoko Akaza ------------- N/A                               ██
    ██                                                                   ██
    ██  ·────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────·   ██
    ██   RIPPER.NOTES...:                                                ██
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    ██   "A truly classic samurai movie which not only has its fair      ██
    ██   share of pacey, exhilirating action scenes, but also a really   ██
    ██   pertinent history and cultural context. Ahead of its time in    ██
    ██   some ways, the film is structured very unconventionally, in     ██
    ██   four chapters detailing Lady Snowblood's past and future.       ██
    ██   This is a technique Tarantino has used in his films,            ██
    ██   particularly relevantly his recent 'Kill Bill', which one can   ██
    ██   draw many comparisons to." You do not want to miss this one,    ██
    ██   folks. This movie owns so much, we spared no expense to bring   ██
    ██   it to you. The subtitles were embedded, but thankfully, into    ██
    ██   the black border of the film. It was then possible to cut       ██
    ██   them out and we manually input them for you in a convenient     ██
    ██   subtitle file. Enjoy!                                           ██
    ██                                                                   ██
    ██   PS: The Flower of Carnage > *                                   ██
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