Which director wrote and directed the "Kill Bill" films?

Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed the “Kill Bill” films. The two-part martial-arts revenge story follows Beatrix “the Bride” Kiddo, played by Uma Thurman, as she hunts the assassins who tried to kill her and her unborn child.

Tarantino and Thurman began developing the Bride character while working together on “Pulp Fiction” in 1994. Tarantino later spent roughly a year and a half writing the screenplay, drawing on exploitation cinema, kung fu movies, samurai films, spaghetti westerns, anime, and Japanese revenge stories. Those influences give “Kill Bill” its deliberately collage-like style, including shifting colour schemes, chapter titles, animation, and sudden changes in tone.

The project was originally conceived as one long film. Because the finished story ran for more than four hours, it was divided into “Volume 1” and “Volume 2.” The first volume was released in 2003, followed by the second in 2004. Tarantino’s credits cover both writing and directing, while Uma Thurman is credited with helping create the Bride character.

A common confusion is to identify “Kill Bill” as a single conventional sequel structure. It is better understood as one story released in two cinematic volumes, with the first emphasizing stylized action and the second providing more backstory and resolution.