Kill Bill: Volume 2

Kill Bill: Volume 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed byQuentin Tarantino
Written byQuentin Tarantino
Produced byLawrence Bender
Starring
CinematographyRobert Richardson
Edited bySally Menke
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byMiramax Films
Release dates
  • April 8, 2004 (2004-04-08) (Cinerama Dome)
  • April 16, 2004 (2004-04-16) (United States)
Running time
138 minutes
CountryUnited States[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[3]
Box office$152.2 million[3]

Kill Bill: Volume 2 is a 2004 American martial arts action film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, who continues her campaign of revenge against the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox) and their leader Bill (David Carradine), who tried to kill her and her unborn child.

Volume 2 is the second of two Kill Bill films produced simultaneously; the first, Volume 1, was released six months earlier. They were originally set for a single release, but the film, with a runtime of over four hours, was divided in two. Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as an homage to exploitation film and other low-budget cinema including martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation, and spaghetti westerns. Like its predecessor, Volume 2 received positive reviews. It grossed $152.2 million worldwide on a production budget of $30 million.

  1. ^ "AFI|Catalog - Kill Bill -- Vol. 2". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 3, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  2. ^ "LUMIERE : Film #21936 : Kill Bill: Vol. 2". Lumiere. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
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