| Kill Bill, Volume 1 (2003)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Daryl Hannah |
Elle Driver
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| Uma Thurman |
The Bride
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| Vivica A. Fox |
Vernita Green
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| Michael Parks |
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| Akaji Maro |
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| Chiaki Kuriyama |
Go Go Yubari
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| Lucy Liu |
O-Ren Ishii
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| Julie Dreyfus |
Sofie Fatale
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| Michael Madsen |
Budd
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| David Carradine |
Bill
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| Sonny Chiba |
Hattori Hanzo
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| Chia Hui Liu |
Johnny Mo
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| Plot |
| Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 1 is trash for connoisseurs. From his opening gambit (including a "Shaw-Scope" logo and gaudy '70s-vintage "Our Feature Presentation" title card) to his cliffhanger finale (a teasing lead-in to 2004's Vol. 2), Tarantino pays loving tribute to grindhouse cinema, specifically the Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti Westerns that fill his fervent brain--and this frequently breathtaking movie--with enough cinematic references and cleverly pilfered soundtrack cues to send cinephiles running for their reference books. Everything old is new again in Tarantino's humor-laced vision: he steals from the best while injecting his own oft-copied, never-duplicated style into what is, quite simply, a revenge flick, beginning with the near-murder of the Bride (Uma Thurman), pregnant on her wedding day and left for dead by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or DiVAS)--including Lucy Liu and the unseen David Carradine (as Bill)--who become targets for the Bride's lethal vengeance. Culminating in an ultraviolent, ultra-stylized tour-de-force showdown, Tarantino's fourth film is either brilliantly (and brutally) innovative or one of the most blatant acts of plagiarism ever conceived. Either way, it's hyperkinetic eye-candy from a passionate film-lover who clearly knows what he's doing. --Jeff Shannon |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Adventure; Thriller; Crime; Action |
| Director |
Quentin Tarantino |
| Producer |
Lawrence Bender; Koko Maeda |
| Writer |
Quentin Tarantino; Uma Thurman |
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| Studio |
Disney / Buena Vista |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R (Restricted) |
| Running Time |
111 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
10/10/2003 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
645 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
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| Edition Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 2.35:1 |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| Barcode |
786936226997 |
| Release Date |
4/13/2004 |
| Subtitles |
Chinese; Japanese; Korean; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 English Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
2 |
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Extra Features
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The Making of Kill Bill Vol. 1
Bonus Musical Performances by "The 5, 6, 7, 8's"
Quentin Tarantino Movie Trailers, including Kill Bill Vol.1
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