Kill Bill Vol. 2

Director: Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino

Overview

The conclusion to 2003's Kill Bill, Vol. 1, this film was once the second half of what was originally intended to be one three-hour movie but was later divided into two films and released four months apart. Picking up where the events of the first film left off, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 2 finds The Bride (Uma Thurman) continuing her vengeful assault on the four assassins who massacred everyone at her wedding and left her for dead. As The Bride takes them down one-by-one, she gets closer and closer to her ultimate goal of laying waste to her former employer, Bill (David Carradine), the man who ordered the hit on her. Daryl Hannah and Michael Madsen also star.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/15/2011
UPC:	0031398134312
Original Release:	2004
Rating:	R
Source:	LIONSGATE - 600000-AEC LGE
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	2:17:00

Special Features

Closed Caption; ; Deleted Scenes; Behind-The-Scenes Look At The Making Of Kill Bill Volume 2 Featuring Quentin Tarantino; ; Kill Bill Volume 2 Premiere - Chingon Performance

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Uma Thurman	Beatrix Kiddo/Panna M¿oda
David Carradine	Bill
Michael Madsen	Budd
Daryl Hannah	Elle Driver
Gordon Liu	Pai Mei,O-Ren Ishii,Pai Mei,Johnny/Pai Mei
Michael Parks	Esteban Vihaio,Actor
Perla Haney-Jardine	B.B. Kido
Laura Cayouette	Rocket
Bo Svenson	Wielebny Harmony
Caitlin Keats	Janeen
Vivica A. Fox	Vernita Green
Samuel L. Jackson	Rufus
Ambrosia Kelley	Actor
Jonathan Loughran	Actor
Michael Bowen	Actor
Jun Kunimura	Boss Tanaka
Goro Daimon	Boss Honda
Kazuki Kitamura	Boss Koji/Crazy 88
Akaji Maro	Boss Ozawah
Shun Sugata	Boss Benta
Yoshiko Yamaguchi	The 5, 6, 7, 8's
Sakichi Sato	Charlie Brown
Tetsuro Shimaguchi	Crazy 88
Sô Yamanaka	Crazy 88
Issey Takahashi	Crazy 88
Juri Manase	Crazy 88
Chiaki Kuriyama	Gogo
Yuki Kazamatsuri	Proprietor
Shin'ichi Chiba	Hattori Hanzo
Jeannie Epper	Mrs. Harmony
Stephanie L. Moore	Joleen
Shana Stein	Erica
Reda Beebe	Lucky
Helen Kim	Karen
Claire Smithies	Clarita
Clark Middleton	Ernie
Sid Haig	Jay the Bartender
Larry Bishop	Larry Gomez
LaTanya Richardson	L.F. O'Boyle
Liu Chia Hui	Actor
Robert Rodriguez	Composer
The Rza	Composer
Lars Ulrich	Composer

Technical Credits

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino	Director,Screenwriter
Erica Steinberg	Executive Producer,Producer
E. Bennett Walsh	Executive Producer,Producer
Bob Weinstein	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer,Producer
Lawrence Bender	Producer
Koko Maeda	Producer
Dede Nickerson	Producer
Jack Jennings	Special Effects
Johanna Ray	Casting
Zoe Bell	Stunts
Mark Ulano	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

The adventures of the Bride (Uma Thurman) continue in Kill Bill Volume 2, the second half of Quentin Tarantino's audacious homage to Hong Kong cinema and the wildly outré potboilers of the drive-in era. Originally intended as the second half of one long film, the sequel picks up where Kill Bill left off, with two members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad dispatched and two more standing between the vengeance-seeking Bride and her former lover and mentor, the quietly philosophical Bill (David Carradine). Volume 2, while not quite as action-packed as its predecessor, is every bit as entertaining in the same over-the-top manner, yet full of the pop culture-spouting dialogue that was missing in Volume 1. The standout sequence is the much-anticipated showdown between the Bride and Elle Driver, the eye patch-wearing assassin played with delicious malevolence by Daryl Hannah. It's a set piece that literally brings the house down. Hannah is absolutely terrific, as is the willowy Thurman, who looks better than she ever has on film -- when she's not drenched in blood, that is. But the top acting honors go to Carradine, whose lengthy banishment to the cinematic outlands of direct-to-video schlock made people forget how good he could be. Tarantino's writing and direction is predictably self-indulgent, but every frame of Kill Bill: Volume 2 is suffused with his love of cinema -- and not just cinema spelled with a capital C. Mr. Q is nothing if not egalitarian, cinematically speaking, and the movie's baroque styling reflects influences you'll never find cited by stuffy academics. This is joyfully exuberant filmmaking at its least restrained, a free-form triumph of style over substance -- and very likely the most exhilarating disc you'll see for some time.