Lady Snowblood 2

Yuki Kashima (Lady Snowblood) has been found guilty of multiple murders and sentenced to hang.  Set free by Kikui, the ruthless head of the secret police,  she is recruited into his service as a political infiltrator. His target is Ransui Tokunaga, a key figure in the anarchist movement that threatens the establishment and the Emperor.

Tokunaga possesses a document that could blow away the forces of reaction and the government, in the form of a letter that reveals their involvement in framing and executing a number of innocent people in order to further their own political ends. Before this affair is concluded, which mixes personal tragedy with public tyranny, Lady Snowblood will have again set herself firmly on the side of the outlaws, the dispossessed and the oppressed, as her sword paints a bespattered trail of carnage that leads to the very heart of corruption.