In Okinawa, The Bride acquires a legendary bladed weapon from the last of the world’s great samurai sword-smiths, the legendary ninjitsu master Hattori Honzo (Sonny Chiba). In Tokyo, O-Ren Ishii is surrounded by her lethal henchmen and holds court in a massive nightclub / restaurant complex, the House of Blue Leaves. The Bride’s assault upon this stronghold is a pitched martial arts battle with hundreds of black clad soldiers of O-Ren’s personal shock squad, The Crazy 88s.
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Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
The fourth movie by Quentin Tarantino is an epic tale of one woman’s quest for justice presented in two installments. In Kill Bill— Vol. 1 the title character, played by David Carradine, is a mostly unseen sinister figure looming over the story who has organized an elite group called the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or DiVAS). All of the vipers are code-named after poisonous serpents and the deadliest of them all is Black Mamba (Uma Thurman), who is also Bill’s former lover.