Tarantino has added plenty to the artistic and cinematic corpus, having created many ingenious, superb, and of course, bloody films that pay homage to samurai movies, westerns, and classics. Kill Bill is his dark and bitter, but ultimately optimistic, tale of The Bride, a martial artist, swordswoman, and the deadliest of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad who is betrayed by the man she loves, left for dead, and has her baby taken from her.

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The Bride's captivating story of death, revenge, and motherhood is difficult to be topped, but these suggested films are worth checking out for anyone who loved Kill Bill.

Seven Samurai / 人の侍 [Shichinin No Samurai] (1954)

Seven Samurai

One of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa’s definitive masterpieces, Seven Samurai narrates the story of seven rōnin (samurai without a master) who are hired by a village to save them from bandits who attack them, kidnap the women, and steal their crops.

Toshiro Mifune (also famous from Kurosawa’s Throne Of Blood and The Bad Sleep Well) stars as Kikuchiyo, a witty, impulsive, and excitable vagabond who lies about his samurai identity, but ultimately proves his bravery and skill on the battlefield as well as in spirit. It is currently in the top 20 of the Sight & Sound critics’ poll of BFI.

Sin City (2005)

Sin City 2005 Poster Art

Based on the stylish, gritty neo-noir comic books by Frank Miller, Sin City shares many common elements with Kill Bill: The stylized violence, the narration by an on-screen character, Kill Bill’s black-and-white sequences, and the themes of revenge and justice.

Tarantino’s stylistic touch can be seen not only because he is generally a frequent collaborator of Robert Rodriguez, but he also directed one scene in Sin City.

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The plot revolves around four intermingling but separate stories of (Ba)Sin City citizens as they traverse their world of corruption, crime, blood, guns, and booze. Roger Ebert praised the film, writing "It's a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant."

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight

This action spy thriller by Renny Harlin (known for Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger with Stallone) tells the story of amnesiac Samantha Caine (Geena Davis), a schoolteacher staying with her partner Hal (Tom Amandes) and her daughter Caitlin (Yvonne Zima).

Eight years before the film’s start, a pregnant Samantha washed onto New Jersey's shore unable to remember anything from her previous life. In the film’s present, Samantha discovers clues about her past that make her reconsider her whole personality and fear that she may have been a far more dangerous person than she ever realized.

House Of Flying Daggers / 十面埋伏 [Shí Miàn Mái Fú] (2004)

House of Flying Daggers

The first thing one notices about House Of Flying Daggers is that it simply looks beautiful. The spectacular cinematography alone can hold one’s attention, however, the film is overall a superb artistic accomplishment. This wuxia romance narrates the enthralling but ultimately tragic love story between Mei (Zhang Ziyi) and Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro).

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Mei is a member of the Flying Daggers, an underground rebel group supported by the Chinese people because they fight against the oppressive and corrupt government of the Tang Dynasty. Jin is a police officer who is tasked with winning Mei’s trust but ends up falling in love with her, which causes him to reevaluate where his loyalties lie as well as his beliefs about right and wrong.

Haywire (2011)

Haywire's ensemble cast features Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, and Antonio Banderas, along with one of Gina Carano's earliest roles. Steven Soderbergh’s film (famous for the Ocean’s trilogyErin Brockovich, and Magic Mike) tells the story of Black Ops operative, Mallory Kane (Carano), who is deceived by her firm and framed for murder.

Along the way, Mallory is forced to untangle the conspiracy that led her to this. Carano exclusively performed her stunts, being a very well-trained martial artist. With a Certified Fresh status on Rotten Tomatoes, Haywire was praised for its action, high-octane style, and cast.

Shogun Assassin / 子連れ狼 [Kozure Ōkami] (1980)

In Kill Bill: Volume II, Shogun Assassin is directly referenced as the first film The Bride ever saw with her daughter. Not only that but the fight in The House Of Blue Leaves from Volume I is also a reference to this film.

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Shogun Assassin tells 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 narration. After his wife is killed and he is betrayed by the Shogun, Ogami becomes a mercenary and, with his young son, begins to roam Japan seeking vengeance, with the Shogun warriors always following them.

Ghost In The Shell (1995)

Ghost in the Shell 1995 Cityscape

No, don't worry, the more recent live-action film is not on this list. This anime film, based on the seinen manga series authored and illustrated by Masamune Shirow and set in 2029 Japan, narrates the story of Major Motoko Kusanagi, a human turned into a cyborg who gains superhuman abilities. As the field chief officer of Public Security Section 9, she uses her skills as part of an anti-cybercrime law-enforcement section of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission.

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In this universe, it is common for people to perform multiple technological augmentations to their bodies while leaving almost none of the original. Essentially, they become a “ghost” (consciousness) in a “shell” (the robot body).

La Femme Nikita (1990)

This French-language film by Luc Besson (known for Lucy and The Fifth Element) tells the story of Nikita, a young woman who wastes away her life with drugs, crime, and violence. After a robbery gone wrong leaves all her friends killed and a murdered police officer, Nikita is imprisoned. However, that does not last for long.

Following a staged suicide, she is taken by “The Centre,” a secret espionage government agency. She is given the option to either die or be trained and work for them; she reluctantly agrees and becomes a formidable assassin, until her job gets complicated by falling in love with kind-hearted Marco.

The Assassin / 刺客聶隱娘 [Cìkè Niè Yǐnniáng] (2015)

This wuxia Taiwanese-Chinese production by Hou Hsiao-hsien is loosely based on the short story Niè Yǐnniáng, penned in Classical Chinese by Pei Xing, a Chinese author from the Tang dynasty period.

Nie Yinniang (the eponymous assassin, portrayed by Shu Qi) is instructed to eliminate crooked government representatives by her teacher, Jiaxin, who raised her. Yinniang fails to fulfill her duties due to feeling mercy and Jiaxin admonishes her with a brutal task meant to assess Yinniang's determination: She is dispatched to the remote region of Weibo in north China to assassinate its army director, her kin Tian Ji'an.

Lady Vengeance / 친절한 금자씨 [Chinjeolhan Geumjassi] (2005)

Geum-ja Lee pointing a gun in Lady Vengeance.

This psychological thriller by Park Chan-wook is the third segment of his Vengeance Trilogy, following Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and Oldboy (2003). Lee Young-ae stars as Lee Geum-ja, a young woman that was wrongly convicted of killing a 5-year-old boy thirteen years before the film’s present.

A model prisoner and innocent in appearance, she is released early; however, Lee quickly sheds her harmless persona to reveal the vengeful rage that has been boiling underneath. She hunts down the man that framed her and separated her from her daughter, who now knows nothing about her. The film was praised for its stylish violence and its strong female protagonist.

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