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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In the final sequence at the Rokumeikan, we see several flags of countries that either didn't exist at the time of the film's 1897-ish setting (e.g. Pakistan, which declared independence in 1947) or didn't use the flag depicted at the time (e.g. Germany, which would still be using the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Germany#/media/File%3AFlag_of_Germany_(1867%E2%80%931918).svg Prussian flag]] rather than the modern one shown in the film).
* TheBadGuysAreCops: About halfway through we learn the police are essentially hired henchmen of the villains.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Yuki is going after people who did horrible things beyond the pale, but she is also stone-cold-ruthless and her allies are a pickpocket, a gang ringleader and a tabloid journalist.
* BookEnds: The film starts and ends with a woman letting out very similar grief-stricken howls: Sayo at the beginning and Yuki herself at the end.
* TheBadGuysAreCops: About halfway through we learn the police are essentially hired henchmen of the villains.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Yuki is going after people who did horrible things beyond the pale, but she is also stone-cold-ruthless and her allies are a pickpocket, a gang ringleader and a tabloid journalist.
* BookEnds: The film starts and ends with a woman letting out very similar grief-stricken howls: Sayo at the beginning and Yuki herself at the end.
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* ColorMotif: Fitting the title, bright red (as in blood) and stark white (as in snow) reoccur frequently as a contrast of violence and beauty.
* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: No one in the heroic half of the cast is fond of government authority (and two of the villains work hand-in-hand with the government). Buddhist priest Dokai (Yuki's mentor) outright says that he likes Ashio because he is filled with righteous anger against the status quo.
* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: No one in the heroic half of the cast is fond of government authority (and two of the villains work hand-in-hand with the government). Buddhist priest Dokai (Yuki's mentor) outright says that he likes Ashio because he is filled with righteous anger against the status quo.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The burgeoning Imperial Japan (which was just getting off the ground in the film's period) and its future atrocities frequently looms over the narrative. The entire narrative is explicitly kickstarted by Japan's aggressive mass drafting of peasants to form a "national army" and the BigBad later comments out loud how an empire of Japan is rising and he's going to aid its expansion all over the globe. The camera also gives some particular (and suspicious) attention to the flags of Germany, Japan and the US in the climax [[spoiler: with the main villain notedly bleeding out on the last two and dying wrapped up in Japan's flag.]] The sequel tellingly makes these themes a lot more overt.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ashio is visiting Gishiro's grave for no apparent reason when he first meets with Yukio. [[spoiler: We later learn Gishiro is his father.]]
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* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Tsukamoto Gishiro]], an asset of the Japanese government who's eager to aid their imperial ambitions through gun-smuggling, dies gushing blood on the flags of Japan and the US, wrapping himself in the former as he writhes to death.
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* TheSpymaster: Matsuemon, leader of some kind of beggar criminal outfit, who supplies Yuki with the info she needs to pursue vengeance.
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* AnachronicOrder: The film starts with Oyuki's birth. The rest of the movie continually switches back and forth between an adult Oyuki pursuing her revenge, and flashbacks to Sayo's backstory and the training of little Oyuki.
* ChekhovsGunman: Kobue, daughter of Oyuki's first victim, who is pretty much forgotten about until the end when she shows up and stabs Oyuki in the stomach.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the manga, Oyuki frames Okono for murder rather than actually kill her. In the film, Okono hangs herself when it becomes plain there's no escape from Oyuki.
* DeathByChildbirth: Sayo dies after giving birth to Oyuki, a breech baby.
* ChekhovsGunman: Kobue, daughter of Oyuki's first victim, who is pretty much forgotten about until the end when she shows up and stabs Oyuki in the stomach.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the manga, Oyuki frames Okono for murder rather than actually kill her. In the film, Okono hangs herself when it becomes plain there's no escape from Oyuki.
* DeathByChildbirth: Sayo dies after giving birth to Oyuki, a breech baby.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the manga, Kobue never learns that Yuki was responsible for her father's death and views her as a kind woman who sent her to Tokyo. Here, she becomes her brutal enemy and final foe.
* AnachronicOrder: The film starts withOyuki's Yuki's birth. The rest of the movie continually switches back and forth between an adult Oyuki Yuki pursuing her revenge, and flashbacks to Sayo's backstory and the training of little Oyuki.
Yuki.
* ChekhovsGunman: Kobue, daughter ofOyuki's Yuki's first victim, who is pretty much forgotten about until the end when she shows up and stabs Oyuki Yuki in the stomach.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the manga,Oyuki Yuki frames Okono for murder rather than actually kill her. In the film, Okono hangs herself when it becomes plain there's no escape from Oyuki.
Yuki.
* DeathByChildbirth: Sayo dies after giving birth toOyuki, Yuki, a breech baby.
* AnachronicOrder: The film starts with
* ChekhovsGunman: Kobue, daughter of
* DeathByAdaptation: In the manga,
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Takemura is a con man and a drunkard, but he genuinely loves his daughter and is shocked and horrified when he learns Kobue is selling herself to pay his debts. He also spends his last moments furiously begging for his daughter's safety. On the other hand, see DirtyCoward.
* FixingTheGame: Takemura is caught cheating at cards in a gambling den. Oyuki intercedes and stops the gamblers from killing him--so that she can kill him herself.
* HeroicSacrifice: Ashio holds Gishiro off, getting shot multiple times in the process, so Oyuki can kill him, even if it means her stabbing through him to get to Gishiro.
* FixingTheGame: Takemura is caught cheating at cards in a gambling den. Oyuki intercedes and stops the gamblers from killing him--so that she can kill him herself.
* HeroicSacrifice: Ashio holds Gishiro off, getting shot multiple times in the process, so Oyuki can kill him, even if it means her stabbing through him to get to Gishiro.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Takemura is a con man and a drunkard, but he genuinely loves his daughter and is shocked and horrified when he learns Kobue is selling herself to pay his debts. He also spends his last moments furiously begging for his daughter's safety. On the other hand, see DirtyCoward.
Its also why Kobue can't accept Yuki's motives.
* FixingTheGame: Takemura is caught cheating at cards in a gambling den.Oyuki Yuki intercedes and stops the gamblers from killing him--so that she can kill him herself.
* HeroicSacrifice: Ashio holds Gishiro off, getting shot multiple times in the process, soOyuki Yuki can kill him, even if it means her stabbing through him to get to Gishiro.
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* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Oyuki fights in a beautiful white kimono, and when splattered with blood it becomes one of the most iconic outfits in film history. Averted during her TrainingFromHell, where her disrobing during a fight is a sign that she's [[TookALevelInBadass taken a level in badass]].
* LatexPerfection: Oyuki kills Tsukamoto, only to notice a mask afterwards and discover that it was really a mook.
* LatexPerfection: Oyuki kills Tsukamoto, only to notice a mask afterwards and discover that it was really a mook.
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* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Oyuki Yuki fights in a beautiful white kimono, and when splattered with blood it becomes one of the most iconic outfits in film history. Averted during her TrainingFromHell, where her disrobing during a fight is a sign that she's [[TookALevelInBadass taken a level in badass]].
* LatexPerfection:Oyuki Yuki kills Tsukamoto, only to notice a mask afterwards and discover that it was really a mook.
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* MadeOfIron: Oyuki gets shot in the gut by Tsukamoto and then stabbed in the gut by Kobue, eventually collapsing into the snow. She is alive and struggling to get up the next morning when the film ends.
* MadeOfPlasticine: Oyuki slices Okono in half at the waist with one swing.
* {{Narrator}}: Tells Oyuki's story.
* MadeOfPlasticine: Oyuki slices Okono in half at the waist with one swing.
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* MadeOfIron: Oyuki Yuki gets shot in the gut by Tsukamoto and then stabbed in the gut by Kobue, eventually collapsing into the snow. She is alive and struggling to get up the next morning when the film ends.
* MadeOfPlasticine:Oyuki Yuki slices Okono in half at the waist with one swing.
* MythologyGag: Ashio's publication of Yuki's story contains panels from the original manga.
* {{Narrator}}: TellsOyuki's story.Yuki's story.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ashio publishes the Yuki's story in order to lure out Okono. In the process, Kobue learns the truth about her father's death and begins her pursuit of Yuki.
* MadeOfPlasticine:
* MythologyGag: Ashio's publication of Yuki's story contains panels from the original manga.
* {{Narrator}}: Tells
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ashio publishes the Yuki's story in order to lure out Okono. In the process, Kobue learns the truth about her father's death and begins her pursuit of Yuki.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Oyuki has finally gotten revenge, but Ashio is dead and Kobue wants revenge of her own. Now that her life's purpose has been fulfilled, she has no real connections to anyone or anything and nothing else to do with her life besides contract killing. The manga ending is more optimistic, with Oyuki tossing her blade into the sea and closing the chapter of violence of her life.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Much was cut from the manga. Elements that were not included in the film: all the lesbian sex (of which there was quite a bit, lesbian {{Fanservice}} being the whole point really) the lesbian stripper plot, Oyuki getting trained as a pickpocket, and several contract murders carried out by Oyuki (the film does include one, in the opening sequence). Additionally, the final violent confrontation between Kobue and Oyuki does not happen in the manga.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Much was cut from the manga. Elements that were not included in the film: all the lesbian sex (of which there was quite a bit, lesbian {{Fanservice}} being the whole point really) the lesbian stripper plot, Oyuki getting trained as a pickpocket, and several contract murders carried out by Oyuki (the film does include one, in the opening sequence). Additionally, the final violent confrontation between Kobue and Oyuki does not happen in the manga.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Oyuki Yuki has finally gotten revenge, but Ashio is dead and Kobue wants revenge of her own. Now that her life's purpose has been fulfilled, she has no real connections to anyone or anything and nothing else to do with her life besides contract killing. The manga ending is more optimistic, with Oyuki Yuki tossing her blade into the sea and closing the chapter of violence of her life.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Much was cut from the manga. Elements that were not included in the film: all the lesbian sex (of which there was quite a bit, lesbian {{Fanservice}} being the whole point really) the lesbian stripper plot, Oyuki getting trained as a pickpocket, and several contract murders carried out byOyuki Yuki (the film does include one, in the opening sequence). Additionally, the final violent confrontation between Kobue and Oyuki Yuki does not happen in the manga.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Much was cut from the manga. Elements that were not included in the film: all the lesbian sex (of which there was quite a bit, lesbian {{Fanservice}} being the whole point really) the lesbian stripper plot, Oyuki getting trained as a pickpocket, and several contract murders carried out by
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* SnowMeansDeath: Sayo dies while giving birth to Oyuki, and names her after the snowfall. Subverted in the end, where it appears Oyuki has been killed by Kobue, though she wakes up in the morning.
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* SnowMeansDeath: Sayo dies while giving birth to Oyuki, Yuki, and names her after the snowfall. Subverted in the end, where it appears Oyuki Yuki has been killed by Kobue, though she wakes up in the morning.
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** The opening credits of the movie roll over a montage of Oyuki refining her combat skills.
** Later the movie shows a pre-teen Oyuki going through rather brutal training with Dokai the monk.
* WaifFu: Oyuki is quite slender, but has no problem taking out scores of mooks if necessary.
** Later the movie shows a pre-teen Oyuki going through rather brutal training with Dokai the monk.
* WaifFu: Oyuki is quite slender, but has no problem taking out scores of mooks if necessary.
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** The opening credits of the movie roll over a montage of Oyuki Yuki refining her combat skills.
** Later the movie shows a pre-teenOyuki Yuki going through rather brutal training with Dokai the monk.
* WaifFu:Oyuki Yuki is quite slender, but has no problem taking out scores of mooks if necessary.
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* DirtyCoward: When Takemura is quick to offer up his daughter to others for sex if it means getting out of a rough situation.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Takemura is a con man and a drunkard, but he genuinely loves his daughter and is shocked and horrified when he learns Kobue is selling herself to pay his debts. He also spends his last moments furiously begging for his daughter's safety. On the other hand, see DirtyCoward.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: What this movie is all about.
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* WomanInWhite: Oyuki dresses in white kimonos, much like how her parents would dress in white together.
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The plot of the film is roughly similar to the manga. In the backstory, Oyuki's father was murdered by some evil criminals from her village. Oyuki's mother was raped, and then dies in childbirth of Oyuki, but not before getting her cellmates to swear to raise Oyuki as a tool of her revenge. Eventually, Oyuki goes on a ([[BestServedCold somewhat delayed]]) RoaringRampageOfRevenge for her mother's abuse.
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The plot of the film is roughly similar to the manga. In the backstory, Oyuki's father was murdered by some evil criminals from her village. Oyuki's mother was raped, and then dies in childbirth of with Oyuki, but not before getting her cellmates to swear to raise Oyuki as a tool of her revenge. Eventually, Oyuki goes on a ([[BestServedCold somewhat delayed]]) RoaringRampageOfRevenge for her mother's abuse.
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* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Oyuki fights in a beautiful white kimono, and when splattered with blood it becomes one of the most iconic outfits in film history.
** Averted during her TrainingFromHell, where her disrobing during a fight is a sign that she's [[TookALevelInBadass taken a level in badass]].
** Averted during her TrainingFromHell, where her disrobing during a fight is a sign that she's [[TookALevelInBadass taken a level in badass]].
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* TheAlcoholic: Takemura has become this in the present day.
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* DeathByChildbirth: Sayo dies after giving birth to Oyuki, a breech baby.
* DirtyCoward: When Takemura is quick to offer up his daughter to others for sex if it means getting out of a rough situation.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Ashio holds Gishiro off, getting shot multiple times in the process, so Oyuki can kill him, even if it means her stabbing through him to get to Gishiro.
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** Averted during her TrainingFromHell, where her disrobing during a fight is a sign that she's [[TookALevelInBadass taken a level in badass]].
** Averted during her TrainingFromHell, where her disrobing during a fight is a sign that she's [[TookALevelInBadass taken a level in badass]].
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* LongGame: Sayo seduces every guard in sight for the chance to get pregnant and have her child raised to be a living force of revenge.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Oyuki has finally gotten revenge, but Ashio is dead and Kobue wants revenge of her own. Now that her life's purpose has been fulfilled, she has no real connections to anyone or anything and nothing else to do with her life besides contract killing. The manga ending is more optimistic, with Oyuki tossing her blade into the sea and closing the chapter of violence of her life.
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* SnowMeansDeath: Sayo dies while giving birth to Oyuki, and names her after the snowfall. Subverted in the end, where it appears Oyuki has been killed by Kobue, though she wakes up in the morning.
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* WaifFu: Oyuki is quite slender, but has no problem taking out scores of mooks if necessary.
* WomanInWhite: Oyuki dresses in white kimonos, much like how her parents would dress in white together.
* YouKilledMyFather: The impetus for Sayo's decision is the brutal murder of her husband and son by criminals.
* WomanInWhite: Oyuki dresses in white kimonos, much like how her parents would dress in white together.
* YouKilledMyFather: The impetus for Sayo's decision is the brutal murder of her husband and son by criminals.
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* FixingTheGame: Takemura is caught cheating at cards in a gambling den. Oyuki intercedes and stops the gamblers from killing him--so she can kill him.
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** Later the movie shows a pre-teen Oyuki going through rather brutal training with Dokai the monk.
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** Later the movie shows a pre-teen Oyuki going through rather brutal training with Dokai the monk.monk.
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''Lady Snowblood'' is a 1973 live-action adaptation of the manga [[Manga/LadySnowblood of the same name]].It was directed by Toshiya Fujita, starring Meiko Kaji as Oyuki.
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''Lady Snowblood'' is a 1973 live-action adaptation of the manga [[Manga/LadySnowblood of the same name]]. It was directed by Toshiya Fujita, starring Meiko Kaji as Oyuki.
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The plot of the film is roughly similar to the mange, with manga. In the backstory, Oyuki's father was murdered by some evil criminals from her village. Oyuki's mother was raped, and then dies in childbirth of Oyuki, but not before getting her cellmates to swear to raise Oyuki going as a tool of her revenge. Eventually, Oyuki goes on a ([[BestServedCold somewhat delayed]]) RoaringRampageOfRevenge for her mother's abuse.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: Much was cut from the manga. Elements that were not included in the film: the lesbian stripper plot (and all the other lesbian sex), Oyuki getting trained as a pickpocket, and several contract murders carried out by Oyuki (the film does include one, in the opening sequence). Additionally, the final violent confrontation between Kobue and Oyuki does not happen in the manga.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: Much was cut from the manga. Elements that were not included in the film: all the lesbian sex (of which there was quite a bit, lesbian {{Fanservice}} being the whole point really) the lesbian stripper plot (and all the other lesbian sex), plot, Oyuki getting trained as a pickpocket, and several contract murders carried out by Oyuki (the film does include one, in the opening sequence). Additionally, the final violent confrontation between Kobue and Oyuki does not happen in the manga.
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A 1973 live-action adaptation of the manga ''Manga/LadySnowblood''. Directed by Toshiya Fujita, starring Meiko Kaji as Oyuki.
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The film created a cult following, resulting in a sequel, ''Film/LadySnowblood2LoveSongOfVengeance''. Quentin Tarantino was inspired by the film, which resulted in the creation of ''Film/KillBill''. The film has its own page [[Film/LadySnowblood here]].
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The film created a cult following, resulting in a sequel, ''Film/LadySnowblood2LoveSongOfVengeance''. Quentin Tarantino was inspired by the film, which resulted in the creation of ''Film/KillBill''. The film has its own page [[Film/LadySnowblood here]].
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The plot of the film is roughly similar to the mange, with Oyuki going on a ([[BestServedCold somewhat delayed]]) RoaringRampageOfRevenge for her mother's abuse.
The film created a cult following, resulting in a sequel, ''Film/LadySnowblood2LoveSongOfVengeance''. Quentin Tarantino was inspired by the film, which resulted in the creation of ''Film/KillBill''. The film has its own page [[Film/LadySnowblood here]].
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!!Tropes found in the 1973 film:
* AnachronicOrder: The film starts with Oyuki's birth. The rest of the movie continually switches back and forth between an adult Oyuki pursuing her revenge, and flashbacks to Sayo's backstory and the training of little Oyuki.
* ChekhovsGunman: Kobue, daughter of Oyuki's first victim, who is pretty much forgotten about until the end when she shows up and stabs Oyuki in the stomach.
* DeathByAdaptation: In the manga, Oyuki frames Okono for murder rather than actually kill her. In the film, Okono hangs herself when it becomes plain there's no escape from Oyuki.
* DutchAngle: How the onlookers are portrayed during Sayo's rape scene.
* FixingTheGame: Takemura is caught cheating at cards in a gambling den. Oyuki intercedes and stops the gamblers from killing him--so she can kill him.
* HighPressureBlood: Whenever someone is stabbed their blood tends to shoot out as a high-pressure jet.
* TheKenBurnsEffect: The film includes occasional sequences with stills and drawings, doubtless as a tribute to the manga, complete with pans and zooms.
* LatexPerfection: Oyuki kills Tsukamoto, only to notice a mask afterwards and discover that it was really a mook.
* MadeOfIron: Oyuki gets shot in the gut by Tsukamoto and then stabbed in the gut by Kobue, eventually collapsing into the snow. She is alive and struggling to get up the next morning when the film ends.
* MadeOfPlasticine: Oyuki slices Okono in half at the waist with one swing.
* {{Narrator}}: Tells Oyuki's story.
* OutWithABang: How Sayo kills Tokuichi. She pulls out a hidden knife and stabs him in the back while he's on top of her humping away. After an unpleasantly surprised Tokuichi dismounts, she stabs him in the gut a few more times just to make sure.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Much was cut from the manga. Elements that were not included in the film: the lesbian stripper plot (and all the other lesbian sex), Oyuki getting trained as a pickpocket, and several contract murders carried out by Oyuki (the film does include one, in the opening sequence). Additionally, the final violent confrontation between Kobue and Oyuki does not happen in the manga.
* TrainingMontage:
** The opening credits of the movie roll over a montage of Oyuki refining her combat skills.
** Later the movie shows a pre-teen Oyuki going through rather brutal training with Dokai the monk.
