Lady Snowblood (1973)

[Drunk Monk]

The sequel is largely unnecessary.  Yuki fulfilled her asura destiny in the initial film.  Here, she stumbles into intrigue but without the same intensity.  It opens with two nice single shot sword fights - again, not extraordinarily complex but interesting because this pre-dates stedicam.  There are gratuitous breasts in this one - not Yuki, but the wife of her employer, and an old poor hag.  There's also some decent lopping off of parts, more high blood pressure sprays, and some eyeball jabbing that was echoed in Kill Bill.  But on the whole, this film doesn't develop Yuki's character anymore - it just milks her for a sequel.  

This was the end of the series, but apparently there was a sci-fi redux in 2001. Wonder if there are lightsabers....back to Binge Maul.