Kill Bill: Volume 1

Continuity mistake: When Boss Tanaka breaks the bowl on the table, a piece of meatball rolls on the table. Later when the other Japanese guy throws a hand towel on Tanaka the meatball is gone. (00:59:00 - 00:59:45)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: As Earl McGraw tells his Son Number One the massacre at Two Pines house of worship must have been "the work of a salty dog," he gingerly moves in for a closer look at the carnage. Even though the side shot maintains a close view on the upper half of the body, the posture of his movements indicates that he starts stepping forward with his right leg. Yet in the immediate next shot from behind, it is with his left leg that he makes his advance. (00:18:30)

Continuity mistake: When O-Ren's young bodyguard has the mace, she hits the Bride smack in the chest more than once with the very heavy, spiked ball. But later, there is not a trace of a welt, bruise, or cut on the Bride's chest (plenty of blood on her half-zipped jacket but her skin is just fine.)

Krista

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the fight between Oren and the Bride in the garden, Oren puts the sword up to eye level and starts to withdraw the blade from the scabbard. The shot switches to a view from behind her and we see the back of her head. The eye-level sword, however, is nowhere to be seen. When the shot switches back to Oren's face, the sword has reappeared. (01:32:20)

Tax Dude

Continuity mistake: In the scene where The Bride wakes up, a mosquito is shown landing on her. The first shot of the mosquito it shows it landing with all legs. Then in the close-up shot sequence, you see the mosquito is missing a front left leg. (00:24:20)

Continuity mistake: Oren is in the back of a limo, with all six motorbikes ahead of her, after the final two have moved up from the back to the front, but when we see a shot of Oren, in the limo, there are four headlights behind the limo, the way it was before the bikes moved up.

kh1616

Continuity mistake: In the fight scene between Gogo and The Bride, keep your eye on the ball and chain weapon. It spins in different directions depending on the shot.

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Continuity mistake: When The Bride and Vernita Green are in the kitchen, Vernita mentions something like "I've got to fix my daughter's cereal." Notice when she says this, The Bride is holding her mug with the handle facing Vernita, when the shot changes, it is instantly facing The Bride - something which cannot be achieved this quickly.

David Mercier

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Continuity mistake: In the anime sequence after O-Ren Ishii has drawn the sword out of Boss Matsumoto, the blood is splashing out of him, and up on her face. But the amount of blood on her face keeps changing. (00:40:00)

don_corleone

Continuity mistake: When Hanzo hands over the sword to The Bride we can see all of her hair is hanging down on her back. When it cuts a huge lump of her fringe hangs in front of her. (00:55:55)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: The Bride's face gets beaten up with visible marks during the fight with O-Ren's last female fighter. But after the fight her face is back to how it looked before the fight.

Jacob La Cour

Continuity mistake: After O-Ren chops off Tanaka's head at the Yakuza boss meeting, the position of her hand holding the sword changes. At first she is holding it with an overhand grip, then when the blood shower from Tanaka's neck ends, she lowers the sword and is gripping it underhand. (01:01:30)

Continuity mistake: When The Bride is fighting the Crazy 88s, right after it changes from black/white screen to color again, they fight in a room where the light gets shut off. Now watch close, they wait. They fight. She hits a few members of the gang. Watch the gangster in the lower left corner of your screen. He's gone. He rolls away to the left. They start fighting again. Keep paying attention to the lower left corner. You see him roll away again a few seconds later. (01:27:25)

Continuity mistake: The Bride cuts off both of Sophie's arms, but when she throws her into the hospital, she has one arm. (This mistake is only seen in the extended Japanese version of the film - in other versions only one arm is cut off).

MikeH

Continuity mistake: Tanaka's severed head lands on the table and stops rolling, meaning it should stop moving. However, it then falls off the table.

MikeH

Continuity mistake: In the Crazy 88 fight, when The Bride stabs a bald Crazy 88 member, at first the sword is to the left of his tie, but when we see a closeup, it's to the right of it.

MikeH

Revealing mistake: When Gogo is fighting the bride, misses and hits herself with the mace, as she falls backwards onto the table, you can see the stunt double's hairy legs. (01:16:10)

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O-Ren Ishii: As your leader, I encourage you from time to time, but always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. If you're unconvinced a particular plan of action I've chosen is the wisest, tell me so. But allow me to convince you. And I promise you, right here and now, no subject will ever be taboo. Except the subject that was just under discussion. The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or American heritage as a negative is: I collect your fucking head. [Holds up Boss Tanaka's head.] Just like this fucker here. Now if any of you sons of bitches got anything else to say, NOW'S THE FUCKING TIME! [Silence.] I didn't think so.

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Trivia: The Japanese version of "Kill Bill" is longer and contains even more violence and gore.

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Question: In the scene where The Bride is trying to get Hattari Hanzo to make her a sword she mentions a "former" pupil and he changes his mind, writing on the window Bill. What did Bill do to upset Hattari Hanzo?

Answer: Bill used Hattari Hanzo's teachings for evil, instead of belief and self defense.

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