Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Six years after Jackie Brown, Tarantino released Kill Bill, an outrageous tribute to one of his great loves: hard-hitting B-movies from Hong Kong. The director blends genre film and pop culture. Uma Thurman steals the show as the assertive assassin 'The Bride'. During her wedding, she is shot by her boss (David Carradine), when he and his associates open fire. After five years in a coma, the heroine awakens. Revenge becomes her leitmotif. Japanese director Toshiya Fujita's Lady Snowblood served as Tarantino's starting point for the cult film.

In part 2, Uma Thurman is the revenge-seeking killing machine 'Black Mamba', who sows death and destruction with her infallible samurai sword. She never loses courage - not even when she is buried alive or takes on hundreds of Japanese gangsters alone - but also shows her emotions.

For the new version, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, Tarantino removed the cliffhanger at the end of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and the summary that accompanied the beginning of Kill Bill: Vol. 2, and inserted an intermission to separate the two parts. The film also features a never-before-seen 7.5-minute animated scene and brings colour back to the fight scene in 'House of Blue Leaves', which was shown in black-and-white in the US theatrical version to avoid an NC-17 rating.