Kill Bill Vol. 1 [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD]

Director: Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino

Overview

Perhaps the most highly anticipated film of 2003, Kill Bill Vol. 1 marked the return of renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino after a six-year hiatus. Re-teaming the director with Uma Thurman for the first time since 1994's Pulp Fiction, the film was originally the first half of what was to be a three-hour-plus movie before being split into two films. Thurman stars as The Bride, one-fifth of a team of assassins called DiVAS. When The Bride opts to leave the outfit for a life of marital bliss, it doesn't sit well with her boss, Bill (David Carradine), so he has her former cohorts, played by Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, and Michael Madsen, show up at the nuptials, leaving behind a blood bath. Miraculously, The Bride survives a bullet to the head and, four years later, she sets out for revenge against her four assassins and their employer. The story is concluded in Kill Bill Vol. 2, released six months later.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/10/2023
UPC:	0031398341710
Original Release:	2003
Rating:	R
Source:	Lions Gate
Language:	English
Time:	1:51:00
Sales rank:	1,417

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Uma Thurman	Bride/Czarna Mamba
Lucy Liu	O-Ren Ishii,Johnny Mo,Johnny Mo,Pai Mei
Vivica A. Fox	Vernita Green
David Carradine	Bill
Daryl Hannah	Elle Driver
Michael Madsen	Budd
Michael Parks	Sheriff,Deputy Sheriff Edgar McGraw
Chiaki Kuriyama	Go Go Yubari
Julie Dreyfus	Sofie Fatale
Michael Bowen	Buck
Jun Kunimura	Boss Tanaka
Yuki Kazamatsuri	Proprietor
Kazuki Kitamura	Boss Koji/Crazy 88 Bodyguard No.2
Akaji Maro	Boss Ozawa
Goro Daimon	Boss Honda
Shun Sugata	Boss Senta
Larry Bishop	Larry Gomez
Kenji Ohba	Hanzo's Sushi Bar Assistant
Sakichi Sato	Charlie Brown
Jonathan Loughran	Trucker
Toshituri Morishita	Tokyo Business Man,Tokyo Business Man
Ambrosia Kelley	Nikki Green Bell
Tetsuro Shimaguchi	Crazy 88 Bodyguard No.1
Toji Bora Tanaka	Crazy 88 Bodyguard No.3,Crazy 88 #3
Issei Takahashi	Crazy 88 Bodyguard No.4,Crazy 88 #4
So Tamanaka	Crazy 88 Bodyguard No.5
Juri Manase	Crazy 88 Bodyguard No.6
Shin'ichi Chiba	Hattori Hanzo
Sô Yamanaka	Crazy 88 #5
Jin Zhan Zhang	Boss Orgami
Xiaohui Hu	Young 88
Michael Jai White	Da Moe / Alburt
Kurt Russell	Actor
Samuel Jackson	Rufus
Caitlin Keats	Janeen
Christopher Nelson	Tommy Plympton
LaTanya Richardson	L.F. O'Boyle
Shana Stein	Erica
Bo Svenson	Reverend Harmony
Quentin Tarantino	Pai Mei
5.6.7.8's	House Band
The Rza	Composer
Lars Ulrich	Composer

Technical Credits

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Harvey Weinstein	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer,Producer
Lawrence Bender	Producer
Keith Adams	Stunts
Don Greenberg	Special Effects
Jason Gustafson	Special Effects
Johanna Ray	Casting
E. Bennett Walsh	Executive Producer,Producer
Yuen Wo-Ping	Stunts
Tam Kia Kwan	Special Effects
Leung Wai Kit	Special Effects
Jaco Wong Hin Leung	Special Effects
Erica Steinberg	Executive Producer,Producer
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa	Producer
Katsuji Morishita	Producer
Kwame Parker	Producer
Bob Beher	Sound Effects
Eddie Bydalek	Sound Effects
Kerry Carmean-Williams	Sound Effects
Kevin Braun	Special Effects
John Bires	Sound Effects
Adam Blantz	Sound Effects
Tommy Tom	Special Effects
Zoe Bell	Stunts
Mark Ulano	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Oddly billed as "The 4th Film by Quentin Tarantino," Kill Bill, Vol. 1 is the film-geek auteur's self-consciously ostentatious fusion of American gangster movies, Japanese manga, and Chinese martial-arts films. Willowy Uma Thurman stars as a female assassin targeted for extinction on her wedding day by former coworkers under the direction of her mysterious old boss, Bill (David Carradine). After spending years in a coma, she unexpectedly revives and sets out to wreak vengeance on the killers who murdered her loved ones. Vivica A. Fox and Lucy Liu are the first team members to feel Uma's wrath, and there are more to follow, presumably in Vol. 2. (Shortly before release, the epic film was cut into two shorter parts.) There's no more plot than this; Tarantino presents just enough exposition to prepare the viewer for a succession of over-the-top fight scenes, each more outlandish than the last. His visual and aural references to various films are too numerous to count, although you don't have to be familiar with the other movies to enjoy this one. Kill Bill represents the director at his dynamic best: Totally unrestrained and supremely self-assured, Tarantino has manufactured a great big gob of eye candy -- a flamboyantly excessive piece of entertainment that reflects not just his reverence for movies but also his love of the filmmaking process. Remarkably, the movie lacks the witty, hard-boiled dialogue that helped build Tarantino's fan base. Not that it’s really missed, as the fast-paced, blood-soaked mayhem manages to mesmerize just the same, and certainly whets appetite for Vol. 2.