Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

User Rating:

8.2/10   

Director:

Quentin Tarantino

Writers:

Quentin Tarantino (character The Bride) &
Uma Thurman (character The Bride) ...
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Release Date:

10 October 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Tagline:

In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will kill Bill

Plot:

The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of.

Plot Keywords:

Bride | Assassin | Coma | Revenge | Assassination

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 12 wins & 41 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sun. July 5

12:00 AM

SPIKETV

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
Sonny Chiba	...	Hattori Hanzo
Chia Hui Liu	...	Johnny Mo (as Gordon Liu)
Michael Parks	...	Earl McGraw
Michael Bowen	...	Buck
Jun Kunimura	...	Boss Tanaka
Kenji Ohba	...	Bald Guy (Sushi Shop) (as Kenji Oba)
Yuki Kazamatsuri	...	Proprietor
James Parks	...	Edgar McGraw
Sakichi Satô	...	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 (as Yoji Boba Tanaka)
Issei Takahashi	...	Crazy 88 #4
Satoshi Yamanaka	...	Crazy 88 #5 (as So Yamanaka)
Julie Manase	...	Crazy 88 #6 (Girl) (as Juri Manase)
Akaji Maro	...	Boss Ozawah
Goro Daimon	...	Boss Honda
Shun Sugata	...	Boss Benta
Zhang Jin Zhan	...	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)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Kuroiwa	...	Crazy 88 Fighter (uncredited)
Christopher Allen Nelson	...	The Groom (uncredited)
Stevo Polyi	...	Tim (uncredited)

Directed by
Quentin Tarantino

Writing credits
Quentin Tarantino		(character The Bride) (as Q) &
Uma Thurman		(character The Bride) (as U)
Quentin Tarantino		(written by)

Produced by
Lawrence Bender	....	producer
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa	....	executive animation producer
Koko Maeda	....	associate producer
Katsuji Morishita	....	producer: animation sequence
Dede Nickerson	....	associate producer
Kwame Parker	....	assistant producer
Erica Steinberg	....	executive producer
E. Bennett Walsh	....	executive producer
Bob Weinstein	....	executive producer
Harvey Weinstein	....	executive producer

Original Music by
RZA		(as The RZA)

Cinematography by
Robert Richardson		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Sally Menke

Casting by
Koko Maeda
Johanna Ray

Production Design by
Yohei Taneda
David Wasco

Art Direction by
Daniel Bradford
Hidefumi Hanatani
Minoru Nishida

Set Decoration by
Yoshihito Akatsuka
Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

Costume Design by
Kumiko Ogawa
Catherine Marie Thomas		(as Catherine Thomas)

Makeup Department
Howard Berger	....	special makeup effects supervisor
Norman Cabrera	....	special makeup effects artist: KNB FX Group
Jake Garber	....	special makeup effects artist
Ilona Herman	....	hair stylist: Ms. Thurman
Ilona Herman	....	makeup artist: Ms. Thurman
Tysuela Hill-Scott	....	hair stylist: Ms. Fox (as Tysuela)
Tysuela Hill-Scott	....	makeup artist: Ms. Fox (as Tysuela)
Miia Kovero	....	hair stylist
Emanuel Millar	....	key hair stylist
Christopher Allen Nelson	....	special makeup effects artist (as Chris Nelson)
Gregory Nicotero	....	special effects makeup supervisor
Gregory Nicotero	....	special makeup effects artist: KNB FX Group (as Greg Nicotero)
Peter Owen	....	wig maker
Kyra Panchenko	....	additional makeup artist: Ms. Thurman
Scott Patton	....	special makeup designer
Heba Thorisdottir	....	makeup department head
Noriko Watanabe	....	hair stylist: Ms. Liu
Noriko Watanabe	....	makeup artist: Ms. Liu
Victoria Woods	....	wig maker
Victoria Wood	....	wig maker
Debbie Zoller	....	key makeup artist
Alan Tuskes	....	key special makeup effects studio technician (uncredited)

Production Management
Arturo Del Rio	....	unit production manager: Mexico
Motoki Ishida	....	production manager: Tokyo
Tetsuya Kinoshita	....	production manager: anime sequence
Tomoyoshi Koyama	....	production manager: anime sequence
Peter Mavromates	....	post-production supervisor
Cornelia Ryan	....	production manager
Shin'ichirô Sakaguchi	....	production manager: Tokyo
Maki Terashima-Furuta	....	overseas manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
William Paul Clark	....	assistant director
Marco Polo Constandse	....	second assistant director: Mexico
Heather I. Denton	....	second second assistant director
Stephen Dudycha	....	additional assistant director
Jonathan Tex Levitt	....	second assistant director
Dawn Massaro	....	second assistant director
Kazuto Nakazawa	....	first unit director: animation
Toshihiko Nishikubo	....	second unit director: animation
Kennedy Taylor	....	first assistant director: Tokyo
Ryan Tighe	....	additional second assistant director
Jinzhan Zhang	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Keiji Akatsuka	....	sets: China
Kevin Berve	....	prop fabricator
Jennifer A. Bolitho	....	scenic artist
Edward J. Borasch Jr.	....	assistant property master
Steve Borgese	....	greens foreman
Tom Callinicos	....	on-set dresser
Miguel Cervantes	....	labor foreman
Peter Davidson	....	set designer
Sam Dean	....	welder gang boss
Rome Duval	....	propmaker gangboss
Caylah Eddleblute	....	assistant property master
Gretchen Engel	....	art department coordinator
Marcus Epps	....	swing gang
Richard Ewan	....	paint gang boss
Archie Hankins	....	carpenter
Jennie Harris	....	assistant set decorator
Emilie Harvey	....	scenic artist
Bob Huffman	....	propmaker gangboss
Norm Hvam	....	graphic designer
Katsue Inoue	....	color supervisor
Junichi Ishigami	....	assistant set decorator: Tokyo
Kei Itsutsuji	....	assistant set designer: Tokyo
Paul Jackson	....	swing gang
Maria Jaramillo	....	paint gang boss (as Maria M. Jaramillo)
Lynn A. Johanson	....	scenic artist
Steve Joyner	....	property master (as Steve 'Shotgun' Joyner)
Michael Kocurek	....	propmaker gangboss
Steven Ladish	....	swing gang (as Steve Ladish)
Ed Lindsey	....	propmaker
Julio Cesar Magaña	....	laborer
Jerry Martinez	....	lead graphic designer
Toshihide Matsushita	....	property master
Eriko Miyagawa	....	art department assistant: Tokyo
Eriko Miyagawa	....	bilingual assistant
Christopher Morente	....	greensperson
Frank Musitelle	....	greens foreman
Akiko Nakayama	....	2D work
Scott Nifong	....	assistant property master (as Scott 'Mustang' J. Nifong)
Elizabeth Norton	....	stand-by painter
Chikara Omachi	....	assistant set decorator: Tokyo
Laurel Pickering	....	lead painter
Jeff Plauster	....	construction foreman
Edward J. Protiva	....	swing gang
Mary Saisselin	....	set designer
Satoko Saito	....	assistant art director: Tokyo
Ayako Sakahara	....	illustrator: Tokyo
Takashi Sasaki	....	set designer: Tokyo
Hideki Sato	....	illustrator: Tokyo
Yukiyo Sato	....	assistant set decorator: Tokyo
Brett C. Smith	....	leadman
Tyler J. Smith	....	property assistant
John Stone	....	construction coordinator
Perry Strong	....	art department assistant
Kyoko Suzumura	....	assistant art director: Tokyo
Christopher Tandon	....	assistant art director
Michael Triant	....	swing gang
Ellen C. Troy	....	construction buyer
Michi Ukawa	....	graphic designer
J.R. Vasquez	....	swing gang
Mineko Yoneta	....	assistant set designer: Tokyo
Cole Young	....	property maker
Shinsuke Kojima	....	assistant art director (uncredited)

Sound Department
Bob Beher	....	sound editor
John Bires	....	sound engineer
Adam Blantz	....	additional sound mixer
Adam Blantz	....	utility sound
Eddie Bydalek	....	sound mix technician
Kerry Ann Carmean	....	co-sound designer
Harry Cohen	....	sound designer
Dino Dimuro	....	sound effects editor
Paul Flinchbaugh	....	digital assistant
Scott Martin Gershin	....	co-supervising sound editor
Nerses Gezalyan	....	foley mixer
Tom Hartig	....	boom operator
Dan Hegeman	....	sound effects editor
Michael Hertlein	....	dialogue editor
Richard Hofman	....	additional sound
Craig S. Jaeger	....	foley editor (as Craig Jaeger)
Daniel R. Kerr	....	sound
David Kudell	....	assistant sound editor
Tom Lalley	....	sound re-recording engineer
Michael Minkler	....	sound re-recording mixer
James Moriana	....	foley artist (as Jimmy Moriana)
Roger Morris	....	adr recordist
Myron Nettinga	....	sound re-recording mixer
Paul D. Poduska	....	additional sound (as Paul Poduska)
Scott Sanders	....	sound designer
Katrina Siegmund	....	dialogue editor
Branden Spencer	....	first assistant sound editor
Frederick H. Stahly	....	dialogue editor
Wylie Stateman	....	supervising sound editor
Greg Steele	....	adr mixer
Mark P. Stoeckinger	....	additional sound (as Mark Stoeckinger)
Peter Michael Sullivan	....	sound designer (as Peter Sullivan)
Jon Title	....	sound effects editor
Mark Ulano	....	production sound mixer
Hugh Waddell	....	adr supervisor
Hugh Waddell	....	dialogue supervisor
Jeffrey Wilhoit	....	foley artist
Peter Zinda	....	sound effects editor
Todd Niesen	....	dialogue denoising (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Jason Gustafson	....	special effects supervisor
John C. Hartigan	....	special effects coordinator
Anthony Ray Herrera	....	special effects foreman
Chen Hu	....	wire technician: Fight Team
Jack Jennings	....	special effects technician
Shu Jian	....	wire technician: Fight Team
Shinsuke Kojima	....	model maker: Tokyo
Kaoru Kusunoki	....	model maker: Tokyo
Fung Wai Lun	....	wire technician: Fight Team
Yuuichi Matsui	....	special effects: Tokyo (as Yuichi Matsui)
Matt McDonnell	....	special effects foreman
Masahiro Murakami	....	special effects
Christopher Allen Nelson	....	special effects makeup (as Chris Nelson)
Corey Pritchett	....	special effects coordinator
Ben Rittenhouse	....	foam department supervisor: KNB Effects Group Inc.
Ron Rosegard	....	special effects foreman
Lam Chi Tai	....	wire technician: Fight Team
He Yaxi	....	wire technician: Fight Team
Chiz Hasegawa	....	project coordinator (uncredited)
Kevin McTurk	....	special effects makeup (uncredited)
Arthur G. Schlosser	....	snow effects technician (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Kevin Braun	....	digital optical supervisor
Kelly Bumbarger	....	digital compositor
David Geoghegan	....	dustbuster
Don Greenberg	....	digital effects artist
Christopher Haydostian	....	digital compositor
Kanta Kamei	....	visual supervisor
Rui Kuroki	....	assistant production manager: animation
Christopher Kutcka	....	imaging supervisor (as Chris Kutcka)
Jennifer Lee	....	digital intermediate
LaNelle Mason	....	digital restoration
Jaime Norman	....	visual effects production manager
Kenny Price	....	digital lineup
Matt Seckman	....	digital compositor
Brian Shows	....	digital asset supervisor
Tommy Tom	....	visual effects supervisor/producer
Jack Ho	....	visual effects supervisor (uncredited)
Michael Lafuente	....	engineer (uncredited)

Stunts
Keith Adams	....	stunt coordinator
Satya Bellord	....	martial arts stunt double: The Bride
Zoe Bell	....	stunt double: The Bride
Ken Lesco	....	utility stunts (as Kenny Lesco)
Ming Liu	....	stunt double: O-Ren
James Logan	....	stunt rigger
Lisa McCullough	....	motorcycle stunt double: The Bride (as Lisa L. McCullough)
Angela Meryl	....	stunt double: Vernita
Cheryl Bermeo	....	stunt driver (uncredited)
Sho Brown	....	stunts (uncredited)
Richard Burden	....	stunt rigger (uncredited)
Jared S. Eddo	....	stunt rigger (uncredited)
Hiro Koda	....	stunts (uncredited)
Michiko Nishiwaki	....	stunt double (uncredited)
Chris O'Hara	....	stunt double: David Carradine (uncredited)
Monica Staggs	....	stunt double: Daryl Hannah (uncredited)
Gary Ray Stearns	....	stunts (uncredited)
Steve Upton	....	stunts (uncredited)
Troy Wood	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Kenneth J. Appel	....	electrian
Herb Ault	....	key grip
Darren Bailey	....	remote camera technician
Matthew J. Barden	....	grip
Melani C. Brown	....	assistant camera
Glenn Cannon	....	video assist operator
Jasmine Yuen Carrucan	....	second assistant camera: Tokyo
Nina Chien	....	camera loader: Tokyo
Andrew Cooper	....	still photographer
Nick Critser	....	grip
Bruce Del Castillo	....	grip
Dhamarata Dhiensuwana	....	rigging key grip
Carlos Escobar	....	rigging grip
Greg Fausak	....	best boy grip
Aaron Felton	....	grip
Jamie Felz	....	first assistant camera: second camera
Antonio V. Garrido	....	dolly grip (as Tony Garrido)
Khan Griffith	....	electrician
Juan Fernando Guzmán	....	electrician
Mark Hadland	....	best boy electric
Julie Helton	....	camera loader
Beck Hoehn	....	camera loader
Yoshiyuki Kamonomiya	....	best boy electric: Tokyo
Ian Kincaid	....	gaffer
Kim Kono	....	electrician
Cindy Lagerstrom	....	electrician
Paul Lambiase	....	grip
Eric Leach	....	rigging grip
Dickinson H. Luke	....	rigging electric best boy (as Dickinson Luke)
John R. Manocchia	....	rigging gaffer
Jerry L. Marshall	....	rigging best boy grip
Brett Matthews	....	camera focus
W. Ted Mayer	....	grip
Larry McConkey	....	Steadicam operator
David L. Merrill	....	dolly operator
Takeshi Nakasu	....	gaffer: Tokyo
Pat O'Mara	....	rigging grip
Chris Pavlu	....	electrician
Simone Perusse	....	dimmer board operator
Richard Ralston	....	rigging electrician
John Seravic	....	crane technician
Jamie Stephens	....	key second assistant camera
Jennifer Stuart	....	camera loader
Brent Studler	....	electrician
Gregor Tavenner	....	key first assistant camera
Skyler Tegland	....	grip
Kelly Uchimura	....	second assistant camera
Marshall Valentine	....	grip
Scott C. Williman	....	lamp operator
Jeffrey L. Wilson	....	grip
Camille Freer	....	assistant camera (uncredited)
Jessica Miglio	....	camera production assistant (uncredited)

Animation Department
Katsuhito Ishii	....	character designer
Eiji Ishimoto	....	key animator: Production I.G.
Toshio Ishizaki	....	animator (as Sushio)
Toshio Ishizaki	....	key animator: Production I.G. (as Sushio)
Mitsuo Iso	....	key animator: Production I.G.
Mahiro Maeda	....	key animator: Production I.G.
Yasunori Miyazawa	....	key animator: Production I.G.
Shin'ya Ôhira	....	animator
Shin'ya Ôhira	....	key animator: Production I.G.
Yutaka Sakamoto	....	animation checker
Keiichi Sasajima	....	key animator: Production I.G.
Shou Tajima	....	character designer
Hideki Takahashi	....	key animator: Production I.G.
Junichi Uematsu	....	animation editor
Takaaki Yamashita	....	key animator: Production I.G.

Casting Department
Jerome Ro Brooks	....	casting assistant
Julie Dreyfus	....	casting associate
Rich King	....	extras casting
Jessica Vogl	....	casting associate
Kelly Hunt	....	casting associate (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Lisa Bojarski	....	costumer
Jim Hansen	....	costumer
Cappi Ireland	....	costumer: Ms. Thurman, Beijing
Amy Lin	....	wardrobe assistant
Helen Monaghan	....	international costume supervisor
Daniel G. North	....	costume supervisor (as Daniel Grant North)
Kasumi Ogawa	....	costumer: Tokyo
Hans Georg Struhar	....	costumer: Ms. Thurman, Los Angeles (as Hans G. Struhar)
Yuko Sugiyama	....	stylist: kimono, Tokyo
Stella Tang	....	wardrobe assistant
Kanani Wolf	....	set costumer
Meng Xie	....	wardrobe assistant
Grace Yim	....	wardrobe assistant

Editorial Department
Joe D'Augustine	....	additional editor
Greg D'Auria	....	assistant editor
Aaron Denenberg	....	negative cutter
Peggy Eghbalian	....	assistant editor
Ian Elias	....	post-production assistant
Katie Flint	....	editorial assistant
Ted Gidlow	....	post-production coordinator
Phyllis Housen	....	assistant editor (as Phyllis K. Housen)
Stephanie Ito	....	digital intermediate producer
Stephanie Johnson	....	assistant editor
Stephen Nakamura	....	senior digital film colorist
Julia Nessling-Douglas	....	digital intermediate coordinator
Fred Raskin	....	assistant editor
Joan Sobel	....	first assistant editor
Mike Sowa	....	digital preview timer
Jon Thompson	....	post-production consultant
Heidi Vogel	....	post-production consultant

Music Department
Lawrence Bender	....	executive soundtrack producer
Michelle Kuznetsky	....	music supervisor
Wendi Morris	....	music coordinator
Mary Ramos	....	music supervisor
Jay B. Richardson	....	music editor
Quentin Tarantino	....	executive soundtrack producer
D.A. Young	....	composer: additional music

Transportation Department
Robert aaron Brown	....	driver: grip truck
Bruce Callahan	....	driver: Uma Thurman
Bruce Callahan	....	transportation co-captain
Michael Dawes	....	driver
John Embry	....	driver
Don Feeney	....	picture car coordinator
J. Armin Garza II	....	driver: camera car
Jessica James	....	driver: cast
David Joseph	....	driver: production van
Neil Marshall	....	driver: honeywagon
Brian Joseph Moore	....	transportation captain
Brian Moore	....	transportation captain
Marty Radcliff	....	driver
Derek Raser	....	transportation coordinator
Geoff Teagardin	....	driver

Other crew
Go Abe	....	production assistant: Tokyo
Paul Abraham	....	craft service
Junichiro Aki	....	technical advisor
Carlos A. Aragon	....	assistant location manager
Jose Manuel Ballesteros	....	caterer
Jose Manuel Ballesteros	....	craft service
Satya Bellord	....	martial arts double: Uma Thurman
Andrew Blau	....	travel coordinator
Geraldine Brezca	....	production assistant
Emmanuel Cabare	....	production liaison
Aaron Campbell	....	production counsel
Karina Carrero-Annesley	....	office production assistant
Jerry Carville	....	assistant accountant
Sean Carville	....	second assistant accountant
Will Casey	....	unit publicist
Sonny Chiba	....	advisor: samurai sword
Sonny Chiba	....	fight choreographer: Kenjutsu
S.R. Conger	....	assistant accountant
Valentin Dimitrov	....	production assistant
Douglas Dresser	....	location manager
Stephen Dudycha	....	set production assistant
Jerimy Eaton	....	animal trainer
Nina Huang Fan	....	production coordinator
Chong 'Jason' Feng	....	assistant: Ms. Thurman, Beijing
Dr. Li Qing Feng	....	physical therapist
Vincent Joseph Flaherty	....	armorer
Fish Fong	....	team manager: Woo-Ping crew
Todd Fullerton	....	24 frame video/computer engineer
Katsumi Furuhashi	....	production accountant: Tokyo
Rachael Lin Gallaghan	....	assistant production coordinator
Cynthia Graves	....	production coordinator
David Greenbaum	....	executive assistant: Harvey Weinstein
Nancy Haecker	....	key assistant location manager
Bill Hansard	....	rear screen projection
Shinji Higuchi	....	production coordinator: Tokyo
Yoko Honjo	....	japanese interpreter/translator
Ryutaro Ishimori	....	key production assistant: Tokyo
Mark Jackson	....	animal trainer
Jessica James	....	production assistant
Min 'Minde' Jiang	....	assistant: Mr. Tarantino, Beijing
Liu Yi Jun	....	script supervisor: Tokyo
Beverly Jusi	....	first assistant accountant
Damiana Kamishin	....	travel coordinator
Takuya Kaneko	....	production assistant: Tokyo
Aiko Kanna	....	production assistant: Tokyo
S. Dylan Kirkland	....	production assistant
Martin Kitrosser	....	script supervisor
Huan-Chiu Ku	....	martial arts coordinator (as Ku Huen Chiu)
Patricia LaMagna	....	assistant: Ms. Thurman, Los Angeles (as Patty LaMagna)
Jeff Lane	....	set production assistant
Paul LeVasseur	....	office production assistant
Sherrie Liu	....	script supervisor
Julie Manase	....	kenjutsu assistant trainer (as Juri Manase)
Douglas S. McClintock II	....	assistant location manager
Julie McLean	....	assistant: Mr. Tarantino, Los Angeles
Blair Mealing	....	assistant to cast
Akira Morii	....	location manager: Tokyo
Jeanmarie Murphy-Burke	....	unit publicist
Hiroyuki Nakano	....	accountant: Production I.G.
Kunihiko Nomura	....	production assistant: Tokyo
Kyle Oliver	....	assistant location manager (as Kyle 'Snappy' Oliver)
Edward Poveda	....	payroll accountant
Alina Y. Qiu	....	production assistant (as Alina Yan Qiu)
Shannon Ratcliffe	....	assistant: Ms. Liu, Los Angeles
Eric Ian Robinson	....	assistant: Harvey Weinstein
Elizabeth Santoro	....	set production assistant
Daniel Savitt	....	Japanese interpreter
Pilar Savone	....	assistant: Mr. Tarantino, Los Angeles
Roger Schumacher	....	animal trainer
Alan Schwartz	....	assistant craft service
Charlie Scimone	....	craft service
Tomohiko Seki	....	production assistant: Tokyo
Shannon Shea	....	shop foreman
Tetsuro Shimaguchi	....	kenjutsu trainer
Ben Shum	....	set production assistant
Sue Smith	....	production secretary
Kristina Soderquist	....	production accountant
Todd Spangler	....	assistant: Mr. Madsen, Los Angeles (as Tod Spangler)
Jennifer Stephens	....	production coordinator
Jeff Swafford	....	assistant: Mr. Bender, Los Angeles
Maggie Tang	....	assistant: Ms. Liu, Beijing (as Xiao Bin 'Maggie' Tang)
Christopher Tricarico	....	legal
Buzz Visconti	....	first aid
Rui Watanabe	....	production assistant: Tokyo
Ann Wiggins	....	post-production accountant
Satoko Yasui	....	production assistant: Tokyo
Leslie Yeransian	....	stand-in: Sofie Fatale
Woo-ping Yuen	....	martial arts advisor (as Yuen Wo-Ping)
Emily Aaronson	....	set production assistant (uncredited)
Marie Healy	....	location scout (uncredited)
Susan Eileen Stewart	....	script coordinator (uncredited)

Thanks
Peter Bogdanovich	....	special thanks
Charles Bronson	....	dedicatee
Gray Davis	....	thanks (as Governor Gray Davis)
David R. Evans	....	special thanks
Robert Rodriguez	....	special thanks
Ada Shen	....	special thanks
Stacey Sher	....	special thanks (as Stacy Sher)
Cynthia Tsai	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Miramax Films
• A Band Apart
• Super Cool ManChu

Distributors

• Miramax Films (2003) (USA) (theatrical)
• Alliance Atlantis Communications (2003) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2003) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Bioscop (2003) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International Italia (2003) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International Spain (2004) (Spain) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2003) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2003) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2003) (UK) (theatrical)
• Cinergia (2003) (Ukraine) (theatrical)
• GAGA Communications (2003) (Japan) (theatrical)
• GV Pictures (2003) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Hollydan Works (2007-2008) (Yugoslavia) (DVD)
• Humax Pictures (2003) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Imagem Filmes (2004) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Lumière (2004) (Brazil) (theatrical)
• Miramax Home Entertainment (2004) (USA) (DVD) (VHS)
• Miramax Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Pandasia Entertainment (2003) (Taiwan) (theatrical)
• RCV Film Distribution (2003) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• RCV Film Distribution (2003) (Luxembourg) (theatrical)
• RCV Film Distribution (2003) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• RCV Home Entertainment (2004) (Netherlands) (DVD) (VHS)
• RCV Home Entertainment (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• RTL Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (TV) (broadcast premiere) (RTL5)
• Starz! Network (2003) (USA) (TV)
• TFM Distribution (2003) (France) (theatrical)

Special Effects

• K.N.B. Effects Group (special makeup effects) (as K.N.B. EFX Group, Inc)
• Centro Digital Pictures Ltd. (visual effects)

Other Companies

• A Band Apart  soundtrack published by
• Behind the Scenes Freight  shipping by
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  cranes and dollies
• China Film Co-Production Corporation  produced with assistance of
• Donna Daniels Public Relations  publicity
• Dsire Design  official website design
• L.A. Mad Dogs  adr voice casting
• Maverick Records  soundtrack published by
• Movie Movers  star trailers
• Movie Movers  transportation
• Pacific Title  titles and opticals
• Packair Airfreight  international logistics
• Panavision  camera equipment provided by
• Production I.G.  anime sequence
• RPM Group  promotion and marketing
• Reel Security  production security
• Remote Camera Systems  libra stabilised head
• Sessions Payroll Management  extras payroll services
• Technique  digital intermediate
• Technique  opticals
• The Fourth Film Production Company  produced with assistance of
• Todd-AO Studios (West)  adr recording
• Viv Kim Negative Cutting Service  negative cutting
• WMG Soundtracks  soundtrack published by

Also Known As:

Kill Bill (USA) (informal short title)
Kill Bill Part 1 (USA) (informal title)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (USA) (alternative spelling)
Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume One (USA) (promotional title)
Kill Bill (Czech Republic) [cs]
Kill Bill - Volume 1 (Brazil) [pt]
Kill Bill 1 (Croatia) [hr]
Kill Bill Vol. 1: La venganza (Venezuela) [es]
Kill Bill Volume 1 (Slovakia) [sk]
Kill Bill Volume 1 (Greece) [el]
Kill Bill, la venganza: Volumen I (Argentina) [es]
Kill Bill, volume 1 (France) [fr]
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Finland) [fi]
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Germany) [de]
Kill Bill: Volumen 1 (Spain) [es]
Kill Bill: volume 1 (Italy) [it]
Kiru Biru (Japan: English title) (poster title) [en]
Tuer Bill: Volume 1 (Canada: French title) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content.

Runtime:

111 min | Japan:112 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Japanese | French

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Taiwan:R-18 | Malaysia:18SG (re-rating) | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Iceland:16 | Germany:18 | Hungary:18 | USA:NC-17 (Special Edition DVD) | South Korea:18 (re-rating) (cut) (DVD rating) (uncut) | Singapore:R(A) | New Zealand:R18 | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | Argentina:16 | Australia:R | Brazil:18 | Canada:16+ (Québec) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Chile:14 | Finland:K-18 | France:-16 | Hong Kong:III | Ireland:18 | Israel:16 | Italy:VM14 | Japan:R-15 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Poland:15 | Portugal:M/16 | South Africa:18 | South Korea:Limited (original rating) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | USA:R (certificate #40294)

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company:

Miramax Films

Trivia:

The entrance to the traffic tunnel in Tokyo is in fact the entrance to the second street tunnel in Los Angeles (Blade Runner) with Japanese traffic signs added.

Goofs:

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Elle Driver uses her mobile phone while standing next to The Bride's life-support machine. Mobile phones interfere with hospital equipment. - Cell phones disrupt some hospital equipment, but not all. More likely it would affect the readings of a heart monitor than a "life-support machine". A conversation of a few seconds might have no effect on the machine whatsoever. In any case, Elle would not have been concerned about this.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Bill: Do you find me sadistic? You know, I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now, if I wanted to. You know, Kiddo, I'd like to believe that you're aware enough even now to know that there's nothing sadistic in my actions. Well, maybe towards those other... jokers, but not you. No Kiddo, at this moment, this is me at my most...
[cocks pistol]
Bill: masochistic.
The Bride: Bill... it's your baby...
[BLAM!]

Movie Connections:

References The Doll Squad (1973)

Soundtrack:

I'm Blue

Uma Thurman will....Kill Bill

Uma Thurman is the avenging angel in this long-awaited fourth film from Quentin Tarantino. Intense gory martial arts action

Crime boss O'Ren-Ishii (Liu) paces the gallery of the House Of Blue Leaves, watching her subordinates take on The Bride (Thurman), a samurai-sword wielding blonde dressed in a natty, blood-stained yellow tracksuit. As The Bride disembowels and decapitates a dozen yakuza flunkies, pausing only to rip out the eye of one assailant to uncork another plume of blood, one wonders: what does all this mean for feminism?

The first volume of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill sees women stalk one another as remorselessly as Sergio Leone's nameless gunfighters. Men hardly get a look in. The face of the titular Bill is concealed from us throughout. In place of machismo, we have a ferocious femininity - the snarl of a mother protecting her child. A different strain of aggression drives this action movie, maternal yet predatory. Tarantino riffs on this with his opening fight where the Bride and Vernita Green (Fox) break off from their knife duel when Green's daughter returns from school.

The Bride is after vengeance. After taking a beating at the hands of her former colleagues from the The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, the final bullet to her head is delivered by Bill, who also happens to be father of the unborn child. Waking from a four-year long coma, the Bride clutches at her empty womb and unleashes a feral howl. It is a searing moment from Thurman, who showed up to work on the film only two months after giving birth. What does this mean for feminism? Hard to say, except perhaps that hell hath no fury like a heavily pregnant woman gunned down on her wedding day.

A self-conscious interweaving of numerous exploitation genres - in this volume, the influence of Japanese samurai movies and the ultra violence of Takeshi Miike (Ichi The Killer) are particularly strong - unfortunately one also thinks of McG's Charlie's Angels films. Superficially, at least. What with all these kick-ass chicks and Lucy Liu strutting her stuff. In fact, Kill Bill is the anti-Charlie's Angels. It is a deliberate riposte to the cartoon kung fu, lukewarm Matrix leftovers, and shoddy CGI - what Tarantino dismisses as all that "computer game bullshit" - that Hollywood has been dallying with while the director was away. Where McG's franchise speeds you through its incompetence, Tarantino dawdles to shade in more characterisation, to fill in back story, to embellish every inch of the plot before marking it with a signature flourish. The director of the 90s is back and he might as well have signed the right hand corner of every frame.

Unfortunately, he is so brimming with ideas and ambition that his film had to cut in two to meet the needs of distributors. Miramax took this course of action rather than edit their one-time wunderkind. An unsympathetic studio might have trimmed the extended anime sequence about O'Ren-Ishii's troubled childhood, for example, although this is an intense treat depicting events almost too agonizing and heartbreaking to witness in live action.

Kill Bill arrives at a moment in mainstream movies - between the second and third Matrix films, before the final part of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, ahead of another bloated Harry Potter installment - where Hollywood is willing to test the bladder strength and patience of its audience like never before. Whether it is the fashion for director's cuts or DVD deleted scenes, it is a contemporary truism that art is best served if the excised portions are restored. With this spirit in mind, the dividing of Tarantino's epic into two volumes may be seen as a victory for integrity. However, cynics may suggest that numerous installments mean punters shelling out more times for the same film, both in the cinemas and again for the various extended DVD editions.

Whichever way you want to slice it, this is only half a film. Though it contains many pleasures - and it's great to see such an influential director returning with such a stylistically exuberant work - it is missing the classic satisfying element of any story: an ending.

Verdict A blood-stained love letter to exploitation movies that seems to be missing a few pages.