Kill Bill: Vol. 1
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Year:
Duration:
111 min | Japan:112 min
Genres:
Action | Crime
IMDB rate:
8.1
Director:
Quentin Tarantino
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 21 wins & 59 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2003-10-10
Filming Locations: 5506 Atlas St, Los Angeles, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $30,000,000
Opening Weekend: $22,089,322 (USA) (12 October 2003)
Gross: $70,099,045 (USA) (28 May 2012)
Cast
Actor
Character
Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Michael Parks
Michael Parks
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
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
Shin'ichi Chiba
Hattori Hanzo
Chia-Hui Liu
Johnny Mo
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
Yôji Tanaka
Crazy 88 #3 (as Yoji Boba Tanaka)
Issei Takahashi
Crazy 88 #4
Sô 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)
Naomi Kusumi
Boss Matsumoto (anime sequence) (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa
Pretty Riki (anime sequence) (voice)
Michael Kuroiwa
Crazy 88 Fighter (uncredited)
Christopher Allen Nelson
The Groom
Stevo Polyi
Tim
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Trivia
In the original script, Johnny Mo was called Mr. Barrel. He had a Kato mask on a stick, like someone from a 17th Century costume ball. Mr. Barrel didn't like the rubber bands on the typical Kato masks because they 'fucked up his hair'. The Bride convinces him not to fight her, and he walks away, leaving O-Ren with no bodyguards.
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Bill calls The Bride by her last name, Kiddo, in the film's opening scene. The audience, not knowing her last name, is meant to assume it is simply a term of endearment.
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On the wall of the House of Blue Leaves are the letters Q and U. These refer to the first names of Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman, as the creators of The Bride.
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Goofs
Near the end of the film, The Bride lifts Sofie Fatale from the trunk of a car and throws her down a snow-covered hill in front of Tokyo General Hospital's emergency entrance. During the fall, we can clearly see that Sofie is missing only one arm, her left, and that her right arm and hand are intact and appear to be in a black glove. However a bit later in the film (but earlier chronologically), in the "trunk interrogation" scene, The Bride warns that she will cut off parts of Sofie's body if she refuses to answer questions. The Bride yells, "Give me your other arm!". We only hear this (and Sofie's cries) in the US cut, but in the Japanese cut we see The Bride actually cut off Sophie's right arm at the forearm.
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The wedding is supposed to take place in El Paso, Texas. However, a Joshua tree is clearly seen outside the chapel. Joshua trees only grow in the Mojave desert in California and in Arizona.
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At The House of Blue Leaves, when O-Ren suspects someone outside her private room, she throws a dart that sticks in a beam narrowly missing The Bride. When Go-Go goes to check things out, the dart is sticking in the beam in a downward angle when in the previous shot it was straight on. Also, considering O-Ren was seated and that the dart flew by the Bride at eye level, it would have been more conceivable for the dart to hit the beam at an upward angle, not downward.
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Quotes
The Bride: [in Japanese] Go-Go, right?
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The Bride: [in Japanese] O-Ren Ishii! You and I have unfinished business!
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O-Ren Ishii: [after she cuts off Tanaka's head, in Japanese] So you all will know the seriousness of my warning, I shall say this in English.
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Faq
Q
What Tarantino characters are related?
A
Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction) and Victor Vega (Reservoir Dogs) are brothers.Laurence Dimmick a.k.a. Mr. White (Reservoir Dogs) and Jimmy Dimmick (Pulp Fiction) may be related somehow.Jack Scagnetti (Natural Born Killers) and Seymour Scagnetti (mentioned in Reservoir Dogs) could be related.Drexl Spivey (True Romance) and Marsellus Spivey (mentioned in Reservoir Dogs) could be related.Earl McGraw (From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Grindhouse) and Edgar McGraw (From Dusk till Dawn 2, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Grindhouse) are father and son.Bill and Budd are brothers.Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Inglorious Basterds) and Lee Donowitz (True Romance) are father and son.Note that some of the names of the characters somewhat correspond with the "career choice" of the other, an example being that Drexl is a pimp and Marsellus was a diamond fence who was doing 20 years in prison. Jack Scagnetti was a popular detective and Seymour was a parole officer, etc.
Q
How did the Bride know, after only briefly looking at her hands, that she had been comatose for 4 years?
A
In some cultures they teach you a way to tell many different things just by looking at the lines of the palm. So it is assumed that she read those lines to judge the amount of time she was out. Notice the close up shot of those lines before she says "4 years?"
Q
Who is the father of Vernita Green's daughter? She looks mixed and is almost as old as The Bride's child would've been; is it Bill's?
A
When The Bride and Vernita are having coffee, The Bride says "Not a goddamn fucking thing you've done in the subsequent four years, including getting knocked up, is going to change that," and then later says that it would be fair of her to kill not only Vernita but her daughter and the good doctor. That said, by the timeline the movie sets up, it's actually impossible for Vernita to not have been already pregnant during the Two Pines massacre. The Bride woke up four years, six months later and Nikki was four years old in Kill Bill I. Thus, Vernita would have to have been at least three months pregnant at the time. The doctor could still have been the father (although how he got hooked up with the still-an-assassin Vernita is unknown but not entirely implausible) and it's not a plothole that The Bride would have no idea Vernita was pregnant, since they'd been out of touch.
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