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Kill Bill Chapter 3: The Origin of O-Ren (movie segment)

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Genres: action, drama
Themes: yakuza
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: As "The Bride" takes time to recover feeling on her lower body after waking up from a four-year coma, she reminisces the life of O-Ren Ishii, one of Bill's assassins who was involved in the wedding chapel incident that nearly took her out of commission. O-Ren is an American of Japanese and Chinese descent who lived near a U.S. military base when she was younger. She became an assassin after Boss Matsumoto's yakuza clan murdered both her parents.
User Ratings: 595 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 70 votes (dub:48, sub:16, Spa.sub:5, edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 122 votes (dub:71, sub:47, ?:2, Ger.dub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Very good: 170 votes (dub:85, sub:67, ?:4, Por.sub:3, Spa.sub:3, Spa.dub:2, Fre.sub:2, raw:1, Fre.dub:1, edit.dub:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Good: 137 votes (dub:73, sub:55, ?:2, Fre.sub:2, Ger.dub:2, Swe.sub:1, Fre.dub:1, Rus.dub:1)
 Decent: 55 votes (dub:26, sub:24, Ger.dub:2, edit.dub:1, ?:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 18 votes (dub:9, sub:5, Ger.dub:1, Rus.sub:1, ?:1, Swe.sub:1)
 Not really good: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:2)
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 Bad: 5 votes (dub:4, sub:1)
 Awful: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1269 users, rank: #485
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.728 (Very good-.27), std. dev.: 1.6212, rank: #675
Weighted mean: 7.679 (Very good-.32), rank: #628 (seen all: 7.69 / seen some: 5.93)
Bayesian estimate: 7.676 (Very good-.32), rank: #445
Running time: 8 minutes
Vintage: 2003-10-10
Premiere date:
2003-10-10 (USA)
Trivia: We have 1
Comment:
Part of Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film Kill Bill Vol. 1.
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Character Design:
Katsuhito Ishii
Shou Tajima

Art director: Minoru Nishida

Director of Photography: Miki Sakuma

2D Work: Akiko Nakayama

Accountant: Hiroyuki Nakano

Animation Check: Yutaka Sakamoto

Animation producer: Katsuji Morishita

Assistant Production Manager: Rui Kuroki

Color Supervisor: Katsue Inoue

Editing: Junichi Uematsu

Executive Animation Producer: Mitsuhisa Ishakawa

Executive Art Director: Mitsuhisa Ishikawa

First Unit Director: Kazuto Nakazawa

Key Animation:
Eiji Ishimoto
Hideki Takahashi
Keiichi Sasajima
Mahiro Maeda
Mitsuo Iso
Naoyuki Onda
Shinya Ohira
Sushio
Takaaki Yamashita
Yasunori Miyazawa

Overseas Manager: Maki Terashima-Furuta

Production manager:
Tetsuya Kinoshita
Tomoyoshi Koyama

Second Unit Director: Toshihiko Nishikubo

Special Effects: Masahiro Murakami

Technical Advisor: Junichiro Aki

Visual Supervisor: Kanta Kamei

 

Ai Maeda as O-Ren Ishii (young)

Hikaru Midorikawa as Pretty Riki

Naomi Kusumi as Boss Matsumoto

Japanese companies 

Digital Paint: Production I.G

DVD Distribution:
GAGA Communications
Universal Pictures (Japan)

In-Between Animation: Production I.G

Production: Production I.G

Voice Recording Coordinator: Jinnan Studio

English staff 
English companies 

Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino

Music: Luis Enrique Bacalov ("The Grand Duel - Parte Prima")

 

Licensed by: Miramax Films

Music Production: Maverick Records

Production: A Band Apart

English cast 

Uma Thurman as The Bride / Narrator

 
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