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Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)

2003 film by Quentin Tarantino

Released
2003
Country
United States
Language
English, Japanese
Genre
Martial arts film, Wuxia film, Samurai film
Director
Quentin Tarantino
Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino
Producer
Lawrence Bender
Music
RZA
Cinematography
Robert Richardson
Editing
Sally Menke
Starring
Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama
Running time
110 minutes
Production company
Miramax, A Band Apart
Distributor
Miramax, Xfinity Streampix
Box office
$180.9 million
Budget
$30 million
Set in
Mexico, Tokyo, Texas

Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, a mercenary who swears revenge on a group of assassins (Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox and Michael Madsen) and their leader, Bill (David Carradine), after they try to kill her and her unborn child. Her mission takes her to Tokyo, where she battles the yakuza.

Kill Bill was inspired by 1970s exploitation films and martial arts films. It features an anime sequence by Production I.G and a black-and-white sequence. Volume 1 is the first of two Kill Bill films made in a single production; Volume 2 was released six months later. They were originally set for a single release, but the film, with a runtime of over four hours, was divided in two. This meant Tarantino did not have to cut scenes.

Cast

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Facts from Wikidata Q165325 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.