Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Coming Out at 10 October 2003 in theaters.
Action, Crime, Thriller
Kill Bill: Volume 1 is martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, who swears revenge on a team of assassins (Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox) and their leader, Bill (David Carradine), after they try to kill her and her unborn child. Her journey takes her to Tokyo, where she battles the yakuza.
Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as an homage to grindhouse cinema, including martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation films, and spaghetti Westerns. It features an anime sequence by Production I.G. It is the first of two Kill Bill films made in a single production; the films were originally set for a single release, but the film, with a runtime of over four hours, was divided in two. Volume 1 became Tarantino’s highest-grossing film up to that point, earning over $180 million at the box office. Kill Bill: Volume 2 was released the next year, on April 16, 2004.
A woman in a wedding dress, the Bride, lies wounded in a chapel in El Paso, Texas, having been attacked by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. She tells their leader, Bill, that she is pregnant with his baby just before he shoots her in the head.
Four years later, having survived the attack, the Bride goes to the home of Vernita Green, planning to kill her. Both women were members of the assassination squad, which has since disbanded; Vernita now leads a normal suburban family life. They engage in a knife fight, but are interrupted by the arrival of Vernita’s young daughter, Nikki. The Bride agrees to meet Vernita at night to settle the matter, but when Vernita tries to surprise the Bride with a pistol hidden in a box of cereal, the Bride throws a knife into Vernita’s chest, killing her. Nikki witnesses the killing, and the Bride acknowledges that Nikki may one day seek her own vengeance for her mother’s death.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writers: Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman
Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, David Carradine
Cast:
| Uma Thurman | … | The Bride |
| Lucy Liu | … | O-Ren Ishii |
| Vivica A. Fox | … | Vernita Green |
| Daryl Hannah | … | Elle Driver |
| David Carradine | … | Bill |
| Michael Madsen | … | Budd |
| Julie Dreyfus | … | Sofie Fatale |
| Chiaki Kuriyama | … | Gogo Yubari |
| Shin’ichi Chiba | … | Hattori Hanzo |
| Chia-Hui Liu | … | Johnny Mo |
| Michael Parks | … | Earl McGraw |
| Michael Bowen | … | Buck |
| Jun Kunimura | … | Boss Tanaka |
| Kenji Ohba | … | Bald Guy (Sushi Shop) |
| Yuki Kazamatsuri | … | Proprietor |
| James Parks | … | Edgar McGraw |
| Sakichi Sato | … | Charlie Brown |
| Jonathan Loughran | … | Trucker |
| Yoshiyuki Morishita | … | Tokyo Business Man |
| Tetsuro Shimaguchi | … | Crazy 88 #1 (Miki) |
| Kazuki Kitamura | … | Crazy 88 #2 |
| Yoji Tanaka | … | Crazy 88 #3 |
| Issey Takahashi | … | Crazy 88 #4 |
| So Yamanaka | … | Crazy 88 #5 |
| Juri Manase | … | Crazy 88 #6 (Girl) |
| Akaji Maro | … | Boss Ozawah |
| Goro Daimon | … | Boss Honda |
| Shun Sugata | … | Boss Benta |
| Jin Zhan Zhang | … | Boss Orgami |
| Xiaohui Hu | … | Young 88 (Spanked Boy) |
| Ambrosia Kelley | … | Nikki Bell |
| Sachiko Fujii | … | The 5, 6, 7, 8’s |
| Yoshiko Yamaguchi | … | The 5, 6, 7, 8’s |
| Ronnie Yoshiko Fujiyama | … | The 5, 6, 7, 8’s |
| Shu Lan Tuan | … | Okinawa Airline Ticket Agent |
| Ai Maeda | … | O-Ren (anime sequence) (voice) |
| Naomi Kusumi | … | Boss Matsumoto (anime sequence) (voice) |
| Hikaru Midorikawa | … | Pretty Riki (anime sequence) (voice) |
| Michael Kuroiwa | … | Crazy 88 Fighter |
| Christopher Allen Nelson | … | The Groom |
| Stevo Polyi | … | Tim |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia