The Greatest Fight Scene Of All Time

If there's one thing we're likely to learn from Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, it's that you do not want to get on the wrong side of Uma Thurman. Those of you who haven't moved on from her ditzy role in The Truth About Cats and Dogs or only remember her breathing her last in Les Miserables may have something of a hard time reconciling that with the image of her raining bloody death on scores of yakuza while deftly wielding a razor-edged samurai sword and clad in Bruce Lee's yellow Game of Death track suit. An exclusive set report by Time Asia reveals that Thurman skilfully dismembers no less than 76 masked assailants in the scene, which Tarantino believes will be his crowning achievement as a director. "I want it to be to kung fu fights what the Apocalypse Now 'Ride of the Valkyries' scene was to battle scenes," said Tarantino of the sequence which sees Thurman go postal in Tokyo nightclub, The House of Blue Leaves. "I set up the sequence so that either it would be the greatest thing anyone's ever seen as far as this shit's concerned, or I would hit my head on the ceiling of my talent." Eschewing his trademark pop-culture banter for meaty (and CG-free) action sequences, Tarantino has gone back to the cult Asian action films of the 70s but thrown in some unique stylistic touches of his own. Some sequences are shot entirely in flickering black-and-white while others are in a Japanese Anime style. One thing that isn't likely to change is the director's penchant for gore, the night club massacre has called for 100 gallons of fake blood and Tarantino's become somewhat discerning about exactly what kind of claret splatters his set floor. "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."