The pregnant Bride and her groom rehearse their wedding. It grossed $152.2 million worldwide on a production budget of $30 million. Like its predecessor, Volume 2 received positive reviews. Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as an homage to grindhouse cinema including martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation, and spaghetti westerns.
They were originally set for a single release, but the film, with a runtime of over four hours, was divided in two. Volume 2 is the second of two Kill Bill films produced simultaneously the first, Volume 1, was released six months earlier. Fox) and their leader Bill ( David Carradine), who tried to kill her and her unborn child. It is the sequel to Kill Bill: Volume 1, and stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, who continues her campaign of revenge against the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad ( Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Kill Bill: Volume 2 is a 2004 American neo-Western martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
