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Kill Bill Vol. 1 - Director 's Cut (Japanese Import, Region 2)

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I purchased this Japanese DVD from XploitedCinema.com I went to VideoHelp.com and got directons on how to make my DVD player region free. This DVD is a Region 2 disc and will not work in USA Region 1 set players. I loved this movie and thought that it was awsome since it was Uncut and all. I would reccomend buying this but you need a region free DVD player to wath it on the TV.

KB1 and 2 are PERFECT. But this review is for Kill Bill 1.

Plot: The Bride is a woman who is getting married. On her wedding day, she gets a bullet put in her head by a partner in her assassin squad named Bill. She goes into a 4 year coma and when she wakes up, she is not ready to make nice. She has a hit list, which consists of the DVAS (Deadly Viper Assassination squad). She goes to Japan, gets Hattori Hanzo sword, and is ready to begin the slicing and dicing.

This is an AWESOME movie. Great Cast (Sonny Chiba? AWESOME!!!!), and great music. Uma Thurman is brilliant in her role as The Bride. She can play The Bride like nobody else can. I was also surprised to see Chiaki Kuriyama as GoGo, the schoolgirl-dressed Crazy 88 who is also strong in her performance.

And not to mention the blood and gore. Over the top, yet in a good way. Whenever a limb gets amputated, blood sprays out in an over the top fashion. Love it! And this is a great film overall, so see it!

And aside from that, this is the UNCUT edition, including the full-on color version of the Crazy 88 scene and more blood and gore, so be sure to seek this out!!

This is Q's uncut masterpiece. It has another 2 minutes worth of footage as to what the distinction is in running times between the Japanese 113 min and the US 111 min version. But the big difference is the House of Blue Leaves in color. Full throttle blood and guts color. The US MPAA forced the washing out of the coloring of blood into gray splattered effects with The Crazy 88's. I mean come on just because it's gray and not red really means anything?!? We all know that it's BLOOD. Just like when Hitchcock filmed Psycho in B & W to avoid the mental challenges of the public of seeing the shower scene in living color.

This was the first dvd I got from another country to play on my region free dvd player back in '04. It's one among many now. I only wish that in the supplement sections when the Japanese artists are speaking about what they did in their own language, that there were English subtitles to what they're saying.

I really hope that the Japanese artists get their full due in the upcoming Whole Bloody Affair; since none of them showed up on the US dvd version. On the dvd set and their words translated into English. Especially in regards to their incredible detail within the Japanimation section of this movie.

Ive just recieved this product yesterday and its great from my piont of view, because its the uncut japanese edition and has more additional material than the american version. Its a little bit longer (maybe 2 or 3 min more than the theatrical version) and we see in color all the kill at the house of blue leaves!!!!!!!. And a last Tarantino touch: there is the scene when "The Bride" cut off the second arm of Sophie, maybe that doesnt make a lot of difference, but men its Kill Bill Vol. 1 one of my favourite movies of all time, and this I think is the edition where we can see it as Tarantino imagined it. By the way, this dvd just works if you have a Multi-region dvd player, if you have it and you are a Kill Bill fan buy it!!!!

This edition of the movie is as close to the original vision that Quentin Tarantino had for the movie as you will get (of course, discounting any future release where the two parts are reformed and re-released as a single movie).

I'm not going to write a review on the movie as it has been done by many other people - this review is on this edition of the DVD.

Simply put - there are no black & white bits where QT had to scale the movie back in order to obtain an R-rating (instead of NC-17) and it is definitely worth purchasing this edition over the R-rated versions. I would say to the true fan to have a copy of each but I prefer this edition over all others.

There are no extra scenes and the menus are all in Japanese but that is easy enough to work around. Other editions of the movie that I have also don't have the subtitles for the scenes where Japanese is spoken - but this one does.

English soundtrack is 5.1 (default) and DTS. English subtitles are easy to locate as well.

You will need a machine that will play multiple regions in order to view (or be able to set to region 2).

well ,we all know about tarantinos movies,but for me,kill bill is his best!!! nut much really to say,because you have probably seen it,BUT WITH THE FIGHTING SCENE IN BLACK AND WHITE,IT WAS A BIT DISSAPOINTING,.however to be able to see these scenes in all their glory in colour is exceptionel,i love it.would recommend you get this uncut disc .lots of extrs that are not on the european release..and its region 2....bliss!!!!

this is suppose to be QTs attempt at the martial arts vengeance movie. it is stylish and extremely bloody. but it lacks the dialogue and the street grit of pulp fiction. there is a great opening scene cat fight but the movie wanders afterwards. the characters do not seem real, more cartoonish than actual people. there are some of the old QT movie cliches that you will recognize, but it seems a little outdated now. the fighting is lacking simply because you are dealing with amateurs, not bruce lee. the older QT gets, the more he seems to rely on more blood and guts, less story and humor. QT got lucky with pulp fiction and has yet to match the old magic.