Paramount Summer Classic Film Series double feature screening of the Chinese historical epic Hero and the Japanese samurai revenge film Lady Snowblood.
The State Theatre is pairing two East Asian classics on Saturday, August 22, as part of the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series. It's a double feature that jumps from pre-Imperial China to late nineteenth-century Japan, and both films center on revenge.
The first half is Hero (2002), directed by Zhang Yimou. It's a visually striking piece of wuxia cinema set in pre-Imperial China, following a warrior known as Nameless on a mission of revenge. The cast is a heavy hitter: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, and Donnie Yen. It runs 94 minutes.
Then comes Lady Snowblood (1973), directed by Toshiya Fujita. It shifts the scene to late nineteenth-century Japan and follows a young woman whose parents were killed by a gang of criminals. If the plot sounds familiar, that's because it's cited as a major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill saga. It runs 97 minutes.
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Between the two, you're getting nearly three and a half hours of cinema from two different eras and two different countries, both built around the same basic drive. Doors open at 6 PM, Hero starts at 7 PM, and Lady Snowblood follows at 8:55 PM.
