Lady Snowblood (original Japanese title 修羅雪姫, Shurayukihime) is a 1973 Japanese film directed by Toshiya Fujita and starring Meiko Kaji. It is based on a manga comic called Shurayukihime. It is the story of Yuki, a woman who seeks vengeance upon three people who raped her mother and killed her mother's husband and son. The scenes of this film do not appear in chronological order. Each paragraph below represents a passage of the film in the order it appears in the film. In Meiji 7 (1864), a baby is born in a women's prison. A woman blocks the path of several men and a rickshaw, and kills them using a sword concealed in the handle of an umbrella. She tells the last man to die, Shirayama, that her name is "Shura Yuki Hime". She appears in a poor village looking for a man called Matsuemon, the leader of an underground organization, and asks him to find four people for her, having killed Shirayama for him. In Meiji 7 (1874), a teacher (Masaaki Daimon), his wife Sayo (Miyoko Akaza), and their son are attacked by four criminals.