Movie references in Quentin Tarantino’s two-part revenge epic.

Yakuza films, Samurai movies, Spaghetti Westerns, Italian Giallo, Brian De Palma, John Woo, Coffy, Sergio Leone, Bruce Lee – writer/director Quentin Tarantino and co-creator/star Uma Thurman list some of the ingredients which went into The Making Of Kill Bill Vol.1 (via filmSCHOOLarchive)…

… while Vanity Fair runs through All 58 References in Kill Bill Vol. 1…

… and here are a few more:

A comparison between Kill Bill and the films it references. pic.twitter.com/vE2J4XFQ81

— Quentin Tarantino Universe (@TarantinoWorld) March 25, 2026

Why Kill Bill both is and isn’t two movies, according to Tarantino (via CinemaBlend):

One of the deleted scenes:

this should’ve taken the runtime of the stupid Fortnite bit… “You killed my Master Damo and now I’m gonna kill you!”@MichaelJaiWhite using a stereotypical 70’s English Dub accent for his character was such a genius move, makes everything feel that much more Shaw Bros. https://t.co/nzSGzsDmZl pic.twitter.com/GF9QbdRNjI

— AVarStunts 🇲🇽 🇸🇻 (@kickassvargas) December 8, 2025

Interesting:

It’s crazy watching this movie and realizing that Kill Bill is barely a collage of anything else. It’s just a direct ripoff of Lady Snowblood in style and tone and everything in between https://t.co/G8V930B5dg

— Meesh Hell (@waziot) January 6, 2026

Bill’s monologue at the end of Vol. 2 isn’t what some folks seem to think it is:

Here we go again.

This is neither "the deepest comic book/super hero philosophy ever" nor what this scene is about.

Bill's reading of super heroes is intellectually dishonest, cynical, and self-serving – all to rationalise his own murderous need to control The Bride. https://t.co/uyq8l0DiMz

— viewinder (@viewinder) June 23, 2025

Further Viewing

While we await his promised (threatened?) tenth and final film, I rate this as his obvious best…

Film School: Inglourious Basterds (2009)

… and this as perhaps the one I’ll rate as his best when I’m more grown up:

Film School: A Clockwork Jackie Brown (1997)