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However the Jets won the division on the third tiebreaker, and the Patriots missed the playoffs. In the United States Kill Bill: Volume 1 was released as a DVD on April 13, 2004 while Volume 2 was released August 10, 2004. Tom Brady and the Patriots finished the year at 9-7, tied for the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins for the best record in the division.
. Brady was named MVP of Super Bowl XXXVI while throwing for 145 yards and 1 touchdown. Beatrix stands a while, wiping the odd tear from her cheek, and returns to the house to collect her daughter and start their new life. The Patriots won the game on an Adam Vinatieri field goal as time expired. Bill walks unsteadily away, collapses, and dies in silence.

Instead, Brady drove the Patriots offense down the field. Bill accepts his fate, knowing he has lost. With less than two minutes left in the Super Bowl, and the score tied, sportscaster John Madden said that he thought the Patriots should let the time run out on the clock and look to win the game in overtime. As the victim walks away, he lasts only until his fifth step, whereupon his heart explodes inside his chest. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI. The technique can be described as five blows to pressure points on the body, most notably the chest. After defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship Game, the Patriots were considered 14-point underdogs against the NFC champion St. Following a brief undeclared scuffle with swords, Beatrix disables Bill using the fatal "Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique", taught to her without Bill's knowledge by Pai Mei.

Brady, who threw for 312 yards in his first NFL playoff game, led the Patriots back from a 10-point fourth quarter deficit and engineered the winning drive in overtime to beat the Raiders. The poignant but established tension between their mutual intent to kill each other, and the tenderness and remains of their old romance, sets the emotional stage for the final scene, in which they talk, and realise that they are going to fight until one dies. Citing the controversial "tuck rule," where a ball is ruled an incomplete pass after the quarterback starts any forward throwing motion, referee Walt Coleman overturned the decision after reviewing the instant replay, calling the drop an incomplete pass rather than a fumble (some analysts have claimed that Oakland should have been called for "roughing the passer" on that play, as the player who made contact with Brady hit his head; such a call would have rendered the "tuck rule" controversy obsolete). He comments in explanation for his actions, "When I told you the story of when I thought you were dead, didn't you get how badly I felt?… There are consequences to breaking the heart of a murdering bastard… You experienced some of them…" (A killer herself, Beatrix probably understood this logic inside all along, and does not contest the answer). During a 2001-2002 divisional playoff game against the Oakland Raiders (played in January 2002), Tom Brady had been ruled as having fumbled on a pass attempt, with Oakland protecting a three-point lead. Bill deprecates her attempts to find a 'normal' life, and compares Beatrix with Clark Kent (Superman), saying that she was trying to hide her true, destined identity. He also passed for his third highest single season rating (86.5).^[2]. She tells him why she tried to retire: how she realized upon becoming pregnant that she must put her daughter's future above Bill, and leave behind the assassin's life.

However, during a mid-season matchup at Indianapolis, Brady passed for a career-high regular season rating of 148.3 in a 38-17 win.^[2] Brady helped bring the Patriots to an 11-5 record and into the playoffs. Bill, acting the gentleman-killer, says he still has questions but doubts she can be honest about the answers, and therefore abruptly shoots her with a dart containing truth serum. ^[2]. The child fallen asleep, Beatrix returns to the living room and has a strange conversation with Bill, during which they agree they have "unfinished business". In his first two games, Brady's quarterback rating was low, at 79.6 and 58.7 respectively. falls asleep. Soon after Brady was named the starting quarterback. Met with a family scene rather than aggression, Beatrix is overcome with emotion upon finding her daughter and her mission is temporarily put on hold while her attention shifts entirely to B.B., spending hours alone with her and watching a movie with her until B.B.

New England lost both the game and Bledsoe. However, she finds that Bill is expecting her, with a surprise: B.B., their four-year-old daughter, whom Beatrix had thought was murdered during the wedding chapel attack, is alive and well, apparently delivered while Beatrix was comatose (the audience had been left with this revelation during Bill's conversation with Sofie Fatale at the very end of Volume 1). During that game, Drew Bledsoe suffered internal bleeding after colliding with Jets linebacker Mo Lewis. Beatrix drives to Bill's home, prepared to kill him. This changed on September 23, 2001, when the Patriots were playing against their AFC East division rivals, New York Jets at Foxboro Stadium. He tells her without hesitation, saying that he does this because Bill would want him to. After being selected in the 6th round of the 2000 Draft, Brady served as the backup quarterback to Drew Bledsoe. Beatrix visits, introduces herself, and asks him in a very respectful manner, where Bill is.

In the 1999 season, Brady led Michigan in defeating Alabama in an overtime game in the Orange Bowl and threw for 400 yards in that game. The story shifts to Mexico and to Esteban, a pimp who raised Bill and was a friend of his mother. The Wolverines won 20 of 25 games when Brady started and shared the Big Ten Conference title in 1998. Therefore, it appears as if Tarantino is applying irony to the deaths of numbers three and four of Beatrix's death list.). He was All-Big Ten both seasons and team captain his senior year. Likewise, narrative logic might suggest that Elle fell to the same black mamba that killed Budd. Brady battled for the first string quarterback position with Drew Henson and ultimately started every game in the 1998 and 1999 seasons under Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr. However, considering Beatrix's codename is "Black Mamba," it could be said that she killed him after a fashion, and if she had not come after him in the first place, he would still be alive.

Since that time, Brady has mentioned Montana as one of his inspirations and an idol^[1] He played college football for, and graduated from, the University of Michigan, sitting on the bench his first two years; including a year as understudy to fellow UM teammate and future NFL quarterback Brian Griese who led the Wolverines to the 1997 National Championship. (At first, it may seem disappointing that Budd was not directly killed by Beatrix. Born near San Francisco in San Mateo, California, Brady would be regularly taken to see the 49ers play in the 1980s, where he became a fan of quarterback Joe Montana. Her pending death is implied but not stated. . Elle is left blinded and ranting, shut in Budd's isolated desert trailer with the black mamba. Additionally, Brady was Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year in 2005. Walking past the black mamba on the floor, Beatrix takes her own sword and abandons the trailer and Elle, who is smashing things and screaming, unable to locate her enemy.

With the Patriots, Brady has won three Super Bowls and two Super Bowl MVP awards. Swords locked, Beatrix's hand suddenly darts out and snatches out Elle's remaining eye, blinding her. In the 2000 NFL Draft, Brady was selected by the New England Patriots in the 6th round (199th overall). Elle and Beatrix clash briefly but furiously with the legendary Hanzō swords. Brady attended the University of Michigan and led Michigan to an Orange Bowl victory in the 1999 season. Elle maliciously tells Beatrix that she got her revenge when she poisoned Pai Mei's food, killing him (Pai Mei and possibly Bill were Beatrix's masters in the martial arts). Brady graduated from Junipero Serra High School, the same school that produced baseball player Barry Bonds and NFL Hall of Famer Lynn Swann. We learn that years before, Pai Mei had snatched out Elle's eye for insulting him.

Thomas Edward Brady, Jr. (born August 3, 1977) is an American football quarterback for the National Football League's New England Patriots. Elle and Beatrix have a brief conversation while standing apart. Brady guest-starred as himself in Family Guy episode "Patriot Games" (first aired January 29, 2006). The fight is made fairer when Beatrix finds Budd's own Hanzō sword in amongst the junk, inscribed "To my brother Budd, the only man I have ever loved - Bill", which he had claimed to Bill he had pawned some years ago. Brady guest-starred as himself in The Simpsons episode "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" (first aired February 6, 2005). In the ensuing fight between the two women, Elle has Beatrix's sword. In 2002 and 2004, his touchdown-interception ratio was identical (28-14). As she opens the door, Beatrix attacks her, kicking her back inside.

In his five full seasons as an NFL quarterback, Brady has thrown for either 12 or 14 interceptions per season. The phone call is over, and Elle picks up the Hanzō sword and money to leave the trailer. Was nominated for the FedEx Air Player of the Year Award with Peyton Manning and Carson Palmer(Winner). She also says that if Bill goes to a certain cemetery, he will be standing at "the final resting place of Beatrix Kiddo." This is the first time in the series that Beatrix's name is spoken without the audio being bleeped. In the December 12, 2005 Issue of Sports Illustrated, Brady was named Sportsman of the Year; he is the fourth professional football player to receive the honor since the award was created in 1954 and the first professional football player to garner the accolade since 1990. Bill calls her cell phone, and she feigns sympathy and tells him that his brother Budd was killed by a black mamba left in his camper by Beatrix, but that Beatrix herself is now dead and buried too. Brady appears in a Visa commercial with his teammates from his offensive line, Brandon Gorin, Tom Ashworth, Russ Hochstein, Matt Light, and Dan Koppen in which the offensive linemen represented Visa's five layers of protection. Elle lectures Budd as he dies, telling him her main regret is that "maybe the greatest warrior I have ever met, met her end at the hands of a bushwhackin', scrub, alcky [alcoholic] piece of shit like you", then bends to collect the money prior to leaving.

Brady is a lifelong Roman Catholic. However, she double crosses him, planting a lethal black mamba in the suitcase with the money, and when he begins to check the payment, the angered snake strikes him three times. On April 16, 2005, Brady hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live with musical guest Beck. Elle, along with Budd, believes her to be dead, and is meeting Budd to buy Beatrix's Hanzō sword. According to The Smoking Gun as of 2004, Tom Brady is a registered voter, but has not voted in any political election so far. She hikes back to Budd's isolated desert trailer in time to see Elle pulling up in her Trans Am and Budd standing in the doorway. Brady declined to discuss his political views with the media. Back in the coffin, Beatrix uses one of his lessons, breaking a thick wooden board at short range, to eventually overcome her panic and drive a fist through the coffin lid before clawing her way to the surface.

Bush. The training is extremely rigorous, with many hardships. On January 26, 2004, Tom Brady attended the annual State of the Union Address as a guest of President George W. Bill convinces him to accept Beatrix for training, though it appears he fought his former master as part of the "discussion." At first scathing about her flaws, he comes to respect her and teaches her apparently all he knows. Most completions in a Super Bowl (32 in Super Bowl XXXVIII). Pai Mei was revered as one of the greatest martial arts instructors (a classic example of the Elderly Martial Arts Master stock character). 3 Super Bowl victories. Flashback to many years before, Bill is taking Beatrix to Pai Mei's temple.

2 Super Bowl MVP awards. Budd puts Beatrix in a wooden coffin and buries her alive, after subduing her by threatening to burn her eyes with mace if she does not acquiesce, but offering to bury her with a flashlight if she does. 3 Pro Bowls. She agrees, with one condition: Beatrix "must suffer to her last breath.". 73.7 passing attempts per interception in the post-season (lowest rate, NFL history (minimum 250 pass attempts): Bart Starr second with 71 attempts per post-season interception). Subduing her with an injection, he phones Elle Driver, commenting that having captured Beatrix, he has the "greatest sword ever made" and will sell it to her for one million dollars. 5 passes intercepted. But when she sneaks up to kill Budd after work at his isolated trailer, he is in fact ready and ambushes her with a shotgun, firing non-lethal rock salt into her chest immediately after the door is opened.

15 passing touchdowns. He philosophically comments she knows where he is, saying "That woman deserves her revenge…and we deserve to die.". 2493 passing yards (226.6 ypg). Budd, now retired from assassination and a small town nightclub bouncer (and a drinker according to Elle), seems unconcerned. 225 passes completed. He visits Budd (aka "Sidewinder", played by Michael Madsen), later revealed to be his brother -- they have not spoken for a long time and last time was on bad terms -- and warns him, telling him to be careful: she is coming. 367 passes attempted. Moving to the present, Bill hears of O-Ren Ishii's and Vernita Green's deaths, he knows Beatrix is going down the list.

NFL record 10-1 in the post-season (12-1 including college). Reassured, with irony in the soundtrack and slight tears of happiness in her eyes, Beatrix dons her veil and is lost to us, as the camera tracks back and we see the remainder of her former assassin colleagues at Bill's command approaching the small Texas chapel and begin to fire…. Most consecutive post season wins (college and professional combined): 12. They talk as past lovers, Bill assures her he will "try to be nice", and even offers to attend the wedding, letting Beatrix introduce him to the bridegroom as her "father". NFL record for most consecutive wins in post season: 10 (broke record of Green Bay's Bart Starr). He has tracked her down despite her attempt to leave him and her life as an assassin behind. 7-0 in overtime games. Taking a break from her wedding rehearsal, Beatrix is surprised to see Bill, her former boss and lover, on the front porch of the chapel, playing his flute.

58-20 record as a starter (.744 winning percentage). The segment is shot in black-and-white, with a relaxed pace. 66 interceptions. We return to the wedding chapel, and see for the first time what happened there before the attack. 123 passing touchdowns. After the same brief introduction sequence that started Vol.1, the flashback to the shooting at the wedding chapel, she begins the film by speaking directly to the camera as she is driving, reviewing the events of Kill Bill: Volume 1 and stating that she has one more death on her list, and is on her way; when she gets there she will "Kill Bill.". 18,035 passing yards. Kill Bill: Volume 2 continues the story of Beatrix (The Bride) and her quest for vengeance.

92.3 quarterback rating (2nd highest of career). O-Ren dies, her last words being, "That really was a Hattori Hanzō sword..." The Bride then tortures the half-Japanese, half-French Sofie Fatale (played by Julie Dreyfus), one of Bill's lovers and O-Ren's lawyer, second lieutenant, and best friend, leaving her mutilated but alive, to tell Bill that she is coming for him. Highest interception total, season (minumum 2 starts): 14 (2002, 2004, 2005). Although injured in the exchange, The Bride finally ends the duel with a swing that slices off the top of O-Ren's head, exposing her brain (later censored in some versions). Lowest interception total, season (minimum 2 starts): 12 (2001 and 2003). She then pursues O-Ren outside to a snow-covered zen garden. Highest career quarterback rating against a team: Atlanta Falcons (140.4). In a nightclub named the "House of Blue Leaves," The Bride kills or maims all but one of O-Ren's bodyguards, known as the Crazy 88.

Highest single-season quarterback rating: 92.6 (2004-2005 season). Flying from Okinawa directly to Tokyo, Japan, The Bride locates O-Ren Ishii (aka "Cottonmouth", played by Lucy Liu), a half-Chinese-American, half-Japanese woman raised on an American military base, orphaned by the yakuza, and now "the boss of all bosses," ruler of the Tokyo underworld. Highest single-game quarterback rating: 148.3 (at Indianapolis, October 21, 2001). He says, ritually presenting it to her, "If, on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut.". Hattori Hanzō was Bill's teacher, and despite having sworn an oath many years before, to never create "something that kills people" again, he feels an obligation to help her for having trained him and agrees to make one final weapon for her, the best sword he ever made. Once she regains her full strength, she travels to Okinawa, Japan where she asks master swordsmith Hattori Hanzō (played by Sonny Chiba) to come out of retirement to make one final katana (samurai sword) with which to accomplish her revenge.

This is far from easy - her legs are extremely weak and will barely move, much less support her body. She overcomes her physical weakness to kill her would-be rapist, then Buck, and finally takes the keys to Buck's "Pussy Wagon" (the car mentioned previously) and escapes, launching her quest to eliminate her former associates. It transpires that Buck, the hospital orderly, has been selling her body for sex while she was in a coma. She hears footsteps approaching so she pretends to be unconscious.

She awakens suddenly and almost immediately realises she has lost her baby. The Bride is still in a coma after four years. We flash back 6 months. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.".

But you can take my word for it, your mother had it coming. For that I'm sorry. The child, who has come in at the noise and witnessed the killing, is told by The Bride "It was not my intention to do this in front of you. Suddenly Vernita fires a concealed gun at The Bride, but misses, and The Bride responds by throwing a knife which kills her.

The child is sent to her room as both adults pretend nothing is going on, then over coffee discuss that the past betrayal of The Bride by Vernita cannot be undone, and they agree to meet up for a fight to the death. Vernita, a retired member of the same assassination squad now apparently turned mother and housewife, is shocked but rapidly recovers, their vicious fight to the death interrupted by her young child Nikki returning from elementary school. Fox) who answers. She rings on a door in a suburban street, and attacks the woman (Vernita Green, aka "Copperhead", played by Vivica A.

In the opening of the film, The Bride is driving a car identified by its body-work as the "Pussy Wagon". Elle is furious at the change, as she clearly hates Beatrix, but acquiesces. He adds that if she wakes up, then they will kill her all over again. Bill later sends Elle Driver (aka "California Mountain Snake", played by Daryl Hannah) to finish off the comatose Bride in the hospital, but recalls her as she is about to administer poison, deciding at the last second that killing her while she lies helpless would be dishonorable.

The groom and the rest of the wedding party are murdered while she herself is shot in the head by Bill, and left for dead. Bill, her former boss and lover, tracks her down and finds her about to marry, and arranges for the Vipers to gate-crash the chapel and slay those within. Beatrix Kiddo, also known as The Bride, codename "Black Mamba" is a former member of "The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad." (It is not clear if the Squad are disbanded or still active: with one in a coma, another working as a low-income bouncer, another apparently a housewife and mother, and another running her own yakuza operation, it is possible that the group had disbanded at some time after the Massacre at Two Pines).
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As is common in Tarantino films, they are not arranged in chronological order. Kill Bill is divided into ten chapters, five chapters per volume. The film was shot over the course of eight months, with scenes filmed on location in North America, Japan, and China. Waking from a coma four years later, The Bride is determined to kill all those involved, including Bill, her former mentor, boss and lover, but does not realize her daughter is still alive and in his care.

With the rest of the wedding party slain, Bill administers the coup de grâce, a bullet in the head, cutting off her attempts to tell him she is pregnant with his baby. Uma Thurman plays Beatrix Kiddo, "The Bride", seeking bloody revenge against Bill (played by David Carradine) and her former associates the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad for their ruthless slaying of the wedding party after they gate-crashed her wedding rehearsal. . Meanwhile, some conservative critics decried its extremely graphic and exaggerated depictions of violence.

In particular, the film's unusual and pop culture-heavy dialogue was subject to heavy criticism. Others, however, felt that Tarantino's homage to Asian cinema was overly indulgent, or that it was a new low in cinematic morality. Reviews were mostly positive, with some reviewers regarding it as a cinematic masterpiece. Volume 1 grossed $70 million in its American release while Volume 2 grossed $66 million.

Volume 1 was released on October 10, 2003 and Volume 2 was released on April 16, 2004. It was written and filmed as a single movie, but was edited and released as two films, due in part to the very long running time of the original single-film version. Kill Bill is the fourth film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, and stars Uma Thurman. ^  1 ContactMusic.com "Tarantino Brings Kill Bills Together".

Blonde, who used an identical razor to cut off a police officer's ear. When Beatrix is buried alive in "Chapter Seven: The lonely grave of Paula Schultz", the razor she pulls from her boot to escape is a reference to Michael Madsen's character in "Reservoir Dogs", Mr. When facing the shotgun-wielding assassin Karen, Beatrix calls herself "the deadliest woman in the world." In Pulp Fiction, Mia Wallace describes her character in the failed television pilot "Fox Force Five" as "the deadliest woman in the world with a knife.". The flute which Bill is seen playing both outside the chapel and prior to Beatrix's training is the same flute carried by another of David Carradine's characters, Caine, of Kung Fu fame.

During Bill's interrogation of Beatrix, he says that she is a "natural born killer," a reference to the movie Natural Born Killers, for which Tarantino wrote the initial screenplay. The prop used as Beatrix's Hattori Hanzō sword in Kill Bill was later reused as Miho's nameless sword in the screen adaptation of Sin City. In Pulp Fiction, Butch Coolidge finds a samurai sword in a Los Angeles pawn shop. Budd falsely claims to have pawned his Hattori Hanzō sword in El Paso, Texas.

Jackson's character was also rumored to be Jules from Pulp Fiction, because of that character's desire to "walk the earth.". Jackson has a cameo appearance in the movie as Rufus, an organist in the El Paso Chapel. Samuel L. When the Bride appears with Budd's sword in the fight with Elle Driver, another Ennio Morricone track is heard, one that is featured in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Music from Ennio Morricone's score for A Fistful of Dollars plays in a scene in Volume 2 in which Budd shoots the Bride with rock salt. Tarintino, an obvious Bruce Lee fan paying homage to the success of asian cinema with Kill Bill, has the vindicated "Game of Death" incarnation of Lee, deafeating the discriminated "Black Mask" version of Lee. This was due to the anti-Asian Hollywood at the time as Kato usually had to wear his black mask and did not get many lines or close ups with his mask off. Bruce Lee's was not succesful in the US, he was snubbed for the lead role in the Kung Fu TV series for David Carradine (Bill).

These two homages to Bruce Lee's work combine in the Crazy 88 fight to pit Bruce Lee's first screen incarnation (Kato) against his last (Game of Death). The accompanying music during the en-masse swordfight is also a nod to the series, which used Al Hirt's jazzy trumpet rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" as its theme. The masks worn by the members of the Crazy 88 are the same style that Bruce Lee's character Kato wore in the TV series The Green Hornet. The Bride's yellow tracksuit is from Bruce Lee's Game of Death.

The scene of The Bride standing in the middle of fifty-plus people and still winning the fight is similar to the chambara scenes of countless old Japanese samurai movies. When any battle turns deadly his hands turn red and the siren-like music is played. Through sheer will and intense training the hero retrains himself and his hands as lethal weapons. The siren-like music is actually an homage to "The Five Fingers of Death," one of the first Kung Fu movies released in the United States (1973) The hero is attacked and left crippled, his hands smashed.

The "Ironside" theme music was written by Quincy Jones. The siren-like musical sequence denoting The Bride's encounters with her nemesis is from the theme of police drama Ironside (TV series), starring Raymond Burr as a detective who is confined to a wheelchair after a sniper attack. Near the end of the opening credits, a silhouette evokes Citizen Kane. It is written as "La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid".

The earliest known use of the proverb in print is from the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Hot as you are, you're liable to end up with indigestion." However the origin of the proverb is difficult to determine, possibly Sicilian, Spanish or Pashtun. Lee Van Cleef's character paraphrases the quote saying, "Somebody once wrote that revenge is a dish that has to be eaten cold. It is also used in the Spaghetti Western Death Rides a Horse (1968) (Kill Bill used music from Death Rides a Horse).

"Revenge is a dish best served cold.- Old Klingon Proverb" – This proverb as it is referenced is from Star Trek VI, as well as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Halicki. During the scene where the sheriff is driving to the chapel, the view from the car with the pilot glasses on the dashboard is taken from the 1974 film Gone in 60 Seconds by H.B. This decision was made at a late stage and as a result, the scene had to be reanimated.

David Carradine has confirmed at several conventions and special screenings that the killer of O-Ren's father in the anime sequence is Bill. In Volume Two Bill muses that the Crazy 88 simply "thought it [the name] sounded cool.". However, 44 and 44 make 88, a lucky number. So there's 44 Chinese people and 44 Japanese people! But that's part of the mythology I would only go into if I wrote a book." This is significant in that 4 in Japanese (shi) is a homophone for death, and is considered a very unlucky number.

In Japan, it is most often associated with the 88-temple Shikoku pilgrimage; While some critics have tried to argue that there are not actually eighty-eight members of the group, this has been contradicted by an interview given by Quentin Tarantino to Eiga HIHO magazine, "because O-Ren is half-Chinese and half-Japanese, so is her army. The Crazy 88: in China the number "88" is an auspicious number, much like 7 in the west. The "Color Cut" of this film segment is highly sought after by fanatical US Kill Bill fans, but is still currently unavailable outside Japan (other than through legally-questionable internet sharing). While the American cut of the movie shows the violent battle at the House of Blue Leaves in black and white, the Japanese cut shows it in color.

Her name is also mentioned by Bill before he shoots her in the head, and "Kiddo" turns out to be her actual last name rather than a simple mark of affection to a former lover and partner. However, The Bride's real name is present on her boarding pass for her flights to Okinawa and Tokyo. The Bride's boarding pass (click for a larger view). During this first half of Kill Bill, The Bride's real name is bleeped out when characters say it. It is directed by Kazuto Nakazawa, who also directed the Linkin Park video for "Breaking The Habit", with the animation studio Production I.G, producers of Ghost in the Shell among other works.

The film also features an anime sequence explaining O-Ren's tragic backstory. The Japanese release of Volume 1 begins with a dedication to Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku.