Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50220 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-04-20
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, NTSC
• Original language: English, Japanese
• Subtitled in: Japanese, English

Album Description
Exclusive Japanese version (NTSC/Region 2 requires All Code DVD player to view!). While US & most European versions include action scenes shown only in black & white (to tone down bloody violence & to avoid the NC-17 rating), the Japanese edition is in full color! Special Features include, behind the scenes, trailers, TV spots, & more. Running Time - 113mins. Aspect Ratio(s): 16:9LB Cinemascope, Color, Subtitles - English Japanese, Audio Track - English: Dolby Digital 5.1ch, English - DTS 5.1ch, Japanese - Dolby Digital 5.1ch.

Customer Reviews

You Lose
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!!

Kill Bill vol. 1 Japanese Release ~ Bloody Good Show!
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.

Showdown at the house of Blue Leaves in color!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!