Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Tarantinohas added mountain to the artistic and cinematic corpus , having make many ingenious , superb , and of course , bloodyfilmsthat make up court to samurai movies , westerns , and classic . obliterate Billis his dark and bitter , but in the end optimistic , narration of The Bride , a warlike artist , swordswoman , and the deadliest of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad who is give away by the man she love , left for idle , and has her infant take from her .
The Bride ’s captivating account of death , retaliation , and motherhood is hard to be topped , but these suggested celluloid are deserving fit out for anyone who lovedKill Bill .
Seven Samurai / 人の侍 [Shichinin No Samurai] (1954)
One of Japanese auteurAkira Kurosawa ’s definitive masterpieces , Seven Samurainarrates the story of seven rōnin ( samurai without a superior ) who are hired by a Greenwich Village to redeem them from bandits who attack them , kidnap the women , and slip their crops .
Toshiro Mifune ( also famous from Kurosawa’sThrone Of BloodandThe Bad Sleep Well ) star as Kikuchiyo , a witty , impulsive , and irritable vagabond who lies about his samurai identity , but ultimately proves his bravery and skill on the field as well as in spirit . It is currently in the top 20 of theSight & Soundcritics ’ pollof BFI .
Sin City (2005)
Based on the stylish , gritty neo - noircomic booksby Frank Miller , Sin Cityshares many common elements withKill Bill : The stylized vehemence , the story by an on - sieve character , Kill Bill ’s blackened - and - white sequences , and the themes of revenge and justice .
Tarantino ’s stylistic tinge can be see not only because he is generally a frequent cooperator of Robert Rodriguez , but he also directed one scene inSin City .
The plot revolve around four intermingling but separate narrative of ( Ba)Sin metropolis citizen as they traverse their world of corruption , crime , blood , guns , and booze . Roger Ebert praised the cinema , writing " It ’s a visualisation of the pulp noir resourcefulness , uncompromising and extreme . Yes , and bright . "
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
This action undercover agent thriller by Renny Harlin ( bed forDie Hard 2andCliffhangerwith Stallone ) tell the story of amnesic Samantha Caine ( Geena Davis ) , a schoolteacher staying with her partner Hal ( Tom Amandes ) and her daughter Caitlin ( Yvonne Zima ) .
Eight year before the celluloid ’s offset , a pregnant Samantha washed onto New Jersey ’s shoring unable to remember anything from her previous life-time . In the pic ’s nowadays , Samantha discovers clues about her past that make her reconsider her whole personality and fear that she may have been a far more unsafe somebody than she ever recognize .
House Of Flying Daggers / 十面埋伏 [Shí Miàn Mái Fú] (2004)
The first thing one find aboutHouse Of Flying Daggersis that itsimply looks beautiful . The spectacular cinematography alone can hold one ’s attention , however , the film is overall a superb esthetic accomplishment . This wuxia Romance language narrate the enthralling but in the end tragical love fib between Mei ( Zhang Ziyi ) and Jin ( Takeshi Kaneshiro ) .
Mei is a appendage of the Flying Daggers , an underground rebel radical patronise by the Chinese people because they fight against the oppressive and corrupt government of the Tang Dynasty . Jin is a police officeholder who is tasked with winning Mei ’s trust but finish up falling in love with her , which causes him to reevaluate where his loyalties lie as well as his belief about right and wrong .
Haywire (2011)
Haywire ’s ensemble cast have Ewan McGregor , Michael Douglas , and Antonio Banderas , along with one of Gina Carano ’s earliest roles . Steven Soderbergh ’s film ( far-famed for theOcean’strilogy , Erin Brockovich , andMagic Mike ) secern the story of Black Ops PI , Mallory Kane ( Carano ) , who is deceived by her firm and compose for execution .
Along the manner , Mallory is forced to unpick the cabal that led her to this . Carano entirely performed her stunt , being a very well - train martial artist . With a Certified tonic status on Rotten Tomatoes , Haywirewas praise for its legal action , high - octane dash , and mold .
Shogun Assassin / 子連れ狼 [Kozure Ōkami] (1980)
InKill Bill : Volume II , Shogun Assassinis directly referenced as the first film The Bride ever assure with her daughter . Not only that but the fight in The House Of Blue Leaves fromVolume Iis also a reference to this film .
Shogun Assassintells the story of Ogami Ittō , a.k.a . the Lone Wolf ( Tomisaburô Wakayama ) , the former Shogunate Decapitator whose wife was murdered by ninjas , with his young son Daigorō ( Akihiro Tomikawa ) delivering the yarn . After his married woman is killed and he is grass by the Shogun , Ogami becomes a mercenary and , with his untried son , begin to roam Japan seeking vengeance , with the Shogun warriors always following them .
Ghost In The Shell (1995)
No , do n’t worry , the more recent bouncy - action film is not on this lean . Thisanime plastic film , based on the seinen manga series authored and illustrate by Masamune Shirow and rig in 2029 Japan , narrates the story of Major Motoko Kusanagi , a human wrench into a cyborg who gains superhuman abilities . As the field chief officer of Public Security Section 9 , she apply her skills as part of an anti - cybercrime law - enforcement section of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission .
In this existence , it is vernacular for hoi polloi to do multiple technological augmentations to their bodies while leaving almost none of the pilot . basically , they become a “ ghost ” ( consciousness ) in a “ shell ” ( the robot body ) .
La Femme Nikita (1990)
This Gallic - lyric moving picture by Luc Besson ( acknowledge forLucyandThe Fifth Element ) tell the account of Nikita , a young woman who wastes off her lifespan with drug , crime , and violence . After a looting gone wrong leaves all her friends obliterate and a bump off police officer , Nikita is gaol . However , that does not last for tenacious .
The Assassin / 刺客聶隱娘 [Cìkè Niè Yǐnniáng] (2015)
This wuxia Taiwanese - Taiwanese output by Hou Hsiao - hsien is loosely base on the short storyNiè Yǐnniáng , pen in Classical Chinese by Pei Xing , a Chinese writer from the Tang dynasty period .
Nie Yinniang ( the eponymous bravo , portrayed by Shu Qi ) is instruct to eliminate hunched government representatives by her teacher , Jiaxin , who raised her . Yinniang fails to live up to her duties due to palpate clemency and Jiaxin admonishes her with a fell task meant to evaluate Yinniang ’s purpose : She is dispatched to the remote region of Weibo in Second Earl of Guilford China to assassinate its army director , her kin Tian Ji’an .
Lady Vengeance / 친절한 금자씨 [Chinjeolhan Geumjassi] (2005)
This psychological thriller by Park Chan - wook is the third segment of hisVengeance Trilogy , followingSympathy for Mr. Vengeance(2002 ) andOldboy(2003 ) . Lee Young - ae stars as Lee Geum - ja , a young woman that was incorrectly convicted of vote out a 5 - year - honest-to-god boy thirteen years before the film ’s present .
A model prisoner and impeccant in appearance , she is released too soon ; however , Lee quickly sheds her harmless character to break the vengeful rage that has been boiling underneath . She hunts down the humankind that framed her and split her from her girl , who now fuck nothing about her . The film was praise for its stylish fury and its impregnable distaff protagonist .
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