<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $180.9 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino . It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, who swears revenge on a team of assassins (Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox) and their leader Bill (David Carradine) after they try to kill her and her unborn child . Her journey takes her to Japan, where she battles the Tokyo yakuza . </P> <P> Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as an homage to "grindhouse" cinema including martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation films, and spaghetti westerns . It features an anime sequence animated by Production I.G . It is the first of two Kill Bill films made in a single production; the films were originally set for a single release, but the film, with a runtime of over four hours, was divided in two . Volume 1 became Tarantino's highest - grossing film up to that point, earning over $180 million at the box office . Kill Bill: Volume 2 was released on April 16, 2004 . </P> <P> A woman in a wedding dress, the Bride, lies wounded in a chapel in El Paso, Texas, having been attacked by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad . She tells their leader, Bill, that she is pregnant with his baby . Bill shoots her in the head . </P>

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