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Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Quentin Tarantino · 2003 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A woman wakes from four years in a coma with a bullet in her head and a list of the squad that shot up her wedding rehearsal. She takes the first name in a Pasadena kitchen and the second in Tokyo, where a Japanese-American assassin now chairs the yakuza council and travels with a schoolgirl bodyguard. Tarantino cycles Shaw Brothers kung fu, spaghetti-western scoring and anime through a single picture.

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