#Kill bill volume 1 driver

The Bride travels to Okinawa, Japan, to obtain a sword from legendary swordsmith Hattori Hanzō, who has sworn never to forge a sword again. Resolving to kill Bill and the other Deadly Vipers, the Bride picks her first target: O-Ren Ishii, now the leader of the Tokyo yakuza.Īfter witnessing the yakuza murder her parents when she was a child, O-Ren took vengeance on the yakuza boss and replaced him after training as an elite assassin. She takes the hospital worker's truck and teaches herself to walk again. She kills a man who intends to have sex with her and a hospital worker who has been selling her body while she was comatose.

Awakening from her four-year coma, the Bride is horrified to find that she is no longer pregnant.

#Kill bill volume 1 driver

In the hospital, Deadly Viper Elle Driver prepares to assassinate the Bride via lethal injection, but Bill aborts the mission at the last moment, considering it dishonorable to kill the defenseless Bride. The sheriff discovers that the Bride is alive but comatose. Nikki witnesses the killing, and the Bride offers her a chance to avenge her mother's death when she grows up, should she choose to do so.įour years earlier, the cops investigate the massacre at the wedding chapel. The Bride agrees to meet Vernita at night to settle the matter, but when Vernita tries to shoot the Bride with a pistol hidden in a box of cereal, the Bride throws a knife into Vernita's chest, killing her.

They engage in a knife fight, which is interrupted when Vernita's young daughter Nikki arrives home from school. Both women were members of the Deadly Vipers, which has since disbanded Vernita now leads a normal suburban family life. She tells her attacker, Bill, that the baby is his just as he shoots her in the head.įour years later, the Bride, having survived the attack, goes to the home of Vernita Green, planning to kill her. In 1999, a pregnant woman in a wedding dress, the Bride, lies wounded in a chapel in El Paso, Texas. It received positive reviews and grossed over $180 million on a $30 million budget, achieving highest-grossing opening weekend of a Tarantino film up to that point. Volume 1 was theatrically released in the United States on October 10, 2003. Volume 1 is the first of two Kill Bill films made in a single production they were planned as a single release, but with a runtime of over four hours, was divided in two. It features an anime sequence by Production I.G. Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as a homage to grindhouse cinema, including martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation, and spaghetti Westerns. Her journey takes her to Tokyo, where she battles the yakuza. Fox) and their leader, Bill ( David Carradine), after they try to kill her. It stars Thurman as the Bride, who swears revenge on a team of assassins ( Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on a story by him and Uma Thurman.