Our Lady Snowblood DVD giveaway contest has come to an end and we have a winner. We had nine entries get all of the trivia questions correct so it came down to a random draw and our winner is Jon Fidler. Yes, Nick, you did get them all correct so you’ve now been a finalist in every contest we’ve done without winning any of them. Must be karma.
What? You want the answers to the questions? Right. Here they are.
1. Name the two 70’s era Asian film icons to star in the Kill Bill films and three other films each has appeared in.
Gordon Liu and Sonny Chiba. They’ve each appeared in a ridiculous number of films. The IMDB can give you a complete list.
2. An additional American actor originally appeared in the trailer and on the marquee but was cut entirely out of the finished films. Who was it?
Michael Jai White, aka Spawn.
3. Name the production company responsible for the anime sequence in volume one and the film they produced which was in competition at Cannes this year.
The company is Production IG, the film is Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2.
4. Which director friend did Tarantino call on to provide part of Kill Bill’s score? How much was he paid to do this and name one other film he has scored recently.
Robert Rodriguez was paid $1 for his work on the score. He’s scored his previous films as well, most recently Once Upon a Time in Mexico. It wasn’t part of the question, but Tarantino repayed the favor by directing a segment of Rodriguez’s upcoming Sin City for $1.
5. What film did Beatrice’s daughter want to watch when they met and which two Japanese films were cut together to produce it?
She wanted to watch Shogun Assassin, which is a re-edited compilation of the first two Lone Wold and Cub films. These have been released under a few different names – most common being Sword of Vengeance and Babycart at the River Styx – but I accepted and of the individual titles, or anything listing them as Lone Wolf and Cub One and Two or Babycart One and Two.
6. Okay, I was going to do a screen capture for this, but the software’s being cranky and keeps killing my work … the blue-silhouette sequence at the House of Blue Leaves. Remember it? Yeah? What recent Japanese film did Tarantino steal it from? It was red in the original, by the way.
Hiroyuki Nakano’s Samurai Fiction. Which you should go and watch right now.
7. The Japanese edition of the film is dedicated to which recently deceased director? What was he filming when he died?
Kinji Fukasaku, who was working on Battle Royale 2.
8. Tarantino discovered the actress who played Go Go Yubari in what cult classic film?
That would be Fukasaku’s original, and far superior, Battle Royale.
