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...wartime approaches, he needs to decide where his real loyalties lie. Both sides, West and East, suspect Harry of spying. His two girlfriends--Michiko, an enigmatic Japanese gamine, and Alice, the jaded wife of a British diplomat--are getting jealous of each other. Harry's archenemy, a psychotic, bisexual samurai, is stalking him with a sword. As the clock ticks down to zero, the action speeds up, blurring into a cherry-blossom-scented, sake-drenched fever dream...
...wartime approaches, he needs to decide where his real loyalties lie. Both sides, West and East, suspect Harry of spying. His two girlfriends?Michiko, an enigmatic Japanese gamine, and Alice, the jaded wife of a British diplomat?are getting jealous of each other. Harry's archenemy, a psychotic, bisexual samurai, is stalking him with a sword. As the clock ticks down to zero, the action speeds up, blurring into a cherry-blossom-scented, sake-drenched fever dream...
...cast to camerawork, borrows enthusiastically from combat cinema's archives. One scene will be shot in the flickery black-and-white of the Godzilla genre, another will unfold entirely in Japanese anim?. Tarantino even sent his cinematographer, Oscar winner Bob Richardson (Platoon, JFK, Wall Street), lists of must-see Samurai and Shaw Brothers' classics like Five Fingers of Death and One Armed Swordsman as a pre-production crash course in the camerawork of the kick-flick canon...
...special effects team employs a selection of fake blood that rivals the cast and crew in its international diversity. "I'm really particular about the blood, so we're using a mixture depending on the scenes. I say, 'I don't want horror movie blood, all right? I want Samurai blood.' You can't pour this raspberry pancake syrup on a sword and have it look good. You have to have this special kind of blood that you only see in Samurai movies...
...clearly having a ball. When the movie is released, audiences might not catch all of the allusions in this loving ode to Asian films, especially to the kung fu genre. And will Hollywood-reared audiences really appreciate the absence of horror-film blood in Kill Bill's Samurai-style scenes? Tarantino isn't worrying about that. "I'm making this film for me," he grins. "Everyone else is along for the ride...