Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

Synopsis

”The Bride” (played by Uma Thurman) was once part of a group of world class female assassins until the group leader, ”Bill” (played by veteran actor David Carradine), and the other assassins turned against her.

Five years later, The Bride awakens from the coma in which she was left and heads out to seek bloody revenge.

Finally – six years after Jackie Brown, genius director and two time Stockholm International Film Festival winner, Quentin Tarantino, is back.



Kill Bill: Volume 1 is Tarantino’s long-awaited fourth feature. After many postponed release dates, Tarantino didn’t succeed in reducing the film’s length and decided to simply make Kill Bill in two volumes (Volume 2 will be released five months after the first one). Kill Bill is told in chapter format, making the narrative flow more like a book than a film.

Again, Tarantino works with cult actors – as when he offered Travolta a comeback by giving him the part of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction. Amongst the cast this time are: Daryl Hannah (Splash’s mermaid), Sonny Chiba (Street Fighter) and Swedish action veteran Bo Svensson.

Using over-the-top fighting scenes (with heads flying off!), kung fu battles and animé sequences, Quentin Tarantino is once more two steps ahead of everybody else. –Stockholm International Film Festival

Cast: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Chiaki Kuriyama, Julie Dreyfus, Sonny Chiba, Gordon Liu, Michael Parks, Jun Kunimura, David Carbonara

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Country: United States
Language: French | English | Japanese
Color: Color
Runtime: 111 min.