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Summary
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
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Critics vs audiences
Audiences like it more than critics (+14)
Critics 69Audiences 83GoodWatch 76
Metascore69
Letterboxd · 3.7 M ratings4.2/5
User score8.3
IMDb8.2
Box office
6.0×its budget
- Budget
- $30 M
- Worldwide
- $181 M
Worldwide it earned $151 M more than it cost.
Running time
1 h 51 min
A typical length for action movies
typical 108111Half of all action movies run 96–127 min.
Reach
Streams in 80 countries, rent or buy in 18 more
+70Released
2003
October 10, 2003
23 years ago
Genres
ActionCrimeLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
JapaneseFrenchMade in
United States
MTV Movie & TV Awards2004
- MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance2004Won
- MTV Movie Award for Best Fight2004Won
- MTV Movie Award for Best Villain2004Won
Golden Globe Awards2004
- Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama2004Nominated
BAFTA Awards2004
- Best Leading Actress2004Nominated
Rated
- RUnited States
What's in it
- ViolenceIntense
- Gore, disturbing imagesStrong
- Frightening scenesModerate
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesMild
- Strong languageNamed in the advisories
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsDate NightFriends NightParty VibePartner WatchPublic Viewing SafeSolo WatchTeensPure EscapismNot listed for kids or family movie night.
and 33 more38 people
- Uma ThurmanThe Bride
- Lucy LiuO-Ren Ishii
- Vivica A. FoxVernita Green
- Daryl HannahElle Driver
- David CarradineBill
- Michael MadsenBudd
- Julie DreyfusSofie Fatale
- Chiaki KuriyamaGogo Yubari
Sonny ChibaHattori Hanzo
Gordon Liu Chia-huiJohnny Mo
Michael ParksEarl McGraw
Michael BowenBuck
Jun KunimuraBoss Tanaka
Kenji OhbaBald Guy (Sushi Shop)
Yuki KazamatsuriProprietor
James ParksEdgar McGraw
Sakichi SatoCharlie Brown
Jonathan LoughranTrucker
Yoshiyuki MorishitaTokyo Business Man
Tetsuro ShimaguchiCrazy 88 #1 (Miki)
Kazuki KitamuraCrazy 88 #2
Yoji TanakaCrazy 88 #3
Issey TakahashiCrazy 88 #4
So YamanakaCrazy 88 #5
Directing · 9
- Quentin Tarantino Director, Writer, Characters
- Kazuto Nakazawa First Assistant Director
- Mizuho Nishikubo Second Unit Director
- William Paul Clark Assistant Director
- Kennedy Taylor First Assistant Director
- Heather I. Denton Second Second Assistant Director
Writing · 1
- Uma Thurman Characters
Production · 36
- Harvey Weinstein Executive Producer
- Bob Weinstein Executive Producer
- Mitsuhisa Ishikawa Executive Producer
- Erica Steinberg Executive Producer
- E. Bennett Walsh Executive Producer
- Lawrence Bender Producer
Camera · 12
- Robert Richardson Director of Photography
- Larry McConkey Steadicam Operator
- Jamie Felz First Assistant Camera
- Jasmine Yuen Carrucan Second Assistant Camera
- Andrew Cooper Still Photographer
- Bruce Del Castillo Grip
Editing · 6
- Sally Menke Editor
- Greg D'Auria Assistant Editor
- Joan Sobel First Assistant Editor
- Aaron Denenberg Negative Cutter
- Stephanie Ito Digital Intermediate Producer
- Jennifer Hall Lee Digital Intermediate
Sound · 34
- RZA Original Music Composer
- Tomoyasu Hotei Music
- Harry Cohen Sound Designer
- Peter Michael Sullivan Sound Designer
- Wylie Stateman Supervising Sound Editor
- Scott Martin Gershin Supervising Sound Editor
Art · 35
- Yohei Taneda Production Design
- David Wasco Production Design
- Daniel Bradford Art Direction
- Takashi Sasaki Set Designer
- Hidefumi Hanatani Art Direction
- Sandy Reynolds-Wasco Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up · 22
- Catherine Marie Thomas Costume Design
- Mark Zunino Costume Design
- Kumiko Ogawa Costume Design
- Alexander AD Costume Design
- Greg Nicotero Special Effects Makeup Artist, Makeup Effects
- Howard Berger Special Effects Makeup Artist, Makeup Effects
Visual Effects · 16
- Frankie Chung Chi-Hang Visual Effects Supervisor
- Tommy Tom Visual Effects Supervisor
- Mahiro Maeda Animation
- Sushio Animation
- Katsuhito Ishii Animation Director
- Shinya Ohira Animation
Lighting · 5
- Ian Kincaid Gaffer
- Khan Griffith Electrician
- John R. Manocchia Rigging Gaffer
- Preston A. Adams Lighting Technician
- Carlos Escobar Rigging Grip
Other crew · 45
- Yuen Woo-ping Stunt Coordinator
- Keith Adams Stunt Coordinator
- Robert Rodriguez Thanks
- Zoë Bell Stunt Double
- Michiko Nishiwaki Stunt Double
- Peter Bogdanovich Thanks
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The Kill Bill: Vol series
Film 1 of 2 · then Kill Bill: Vol. 2
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
GoodWatch score 75You're here
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
GoodWatch score 81Film 2
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