Kill Bill Volume 1 is a 2003 action thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

. It is the first of two volumes that were theatrically released several months apart, the second volume being Kill Bill Volume 2

Kill Bill Volume 2

Kill Bill Volume 2 is a 2004 action thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the second of two volumes that were theatrically released several months apart. Kill Bill was originally scheduled for a single theatrical release, but with a running time of over four hours, it was...

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Kill Bill was originally scheduled for a single theatrical release, but with a running time of over four hours, it was separated into two volumes. Kill Bill: Volume 1 was released in late 2003, and Kill Bill: Volume 2 was released in early 2004 - though the two films are frequently referred to collectively as simply "Kill Bill."

The volumes follow a character initially identified as "The Bride", Beatrix Kiddo

Beatrix Kiddo

Beatrix Kiddo, primarily known as "The Bride", is a fictional character and the protagonist in the movie Kill Bill by American director Quentin Tarantino...

, a former member of an assassination

Assassination

To carry out an assassination is "to murder by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." Alternatively, assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons."An assassination may be...

 team who seeks revenge on her ex-colleagues who massacred members of her wedding party and tried to kill her.