Kill Bill: Volume 2

Kill Bill: Volume 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Quentin Tarantino
Written by	Quentin Tarantino
Produced by	Lawrence Bender
Starring	Uma Thurman David Carradine Michael Madsen Daryl Hannah Gordon Liu Michael Parks
Cinematography	Robert Richardson
Edited by	Sally Menke
Music by	RZA Robert Rodriguez
Production company	A Band Apart[1]
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release dates	April 8, 2004 (2004-04-08) (Cinerama Dome) April 16, 2004 (2004-04-16) (United States)
Running time	138 minutes
Country	United States[2]
Language	English
Budget	$30 million[3]
Box office	$152.2 million[3]

Kill Bill: Volume 2 is a 2004 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the second part to Kill Bill, 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. Fox) and their leader Bill (David Carradine), who tried to kill her and her unborn child.

Volume 2 is the second of two Kill Bill films produced simultaneously; the first, Volume 1, was released six months earlier. They were originally set for a single release, but the film, with a runtime of over four hours, was divided in two. Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as an homage to grindhouse cinema including martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation, and spaghetti westerns. Like its predecessor, Volume 2 received positive reviews. It grossed $152.2 million worldwide on a production budget of $30 million.