Kill Bill Page #11

INT. PRIVATE DINING AREA(RESTAURANT) - NIGHT

The private dining area of the Japanese restaurant. The

patrons are surrounded by white paper walls. The CAMERA

CIRCLES around O-REN ISHII.

Sitting in between her, two personal bodyguards, the Yubari

sisters, YUKI AND GO GO. The Yubari sisters are younger than

O-Ren; Yuki is sixteen and Go Go is seventeen. Both girls are

dressed in Japanese schoolgirl uniforms complete with plaid

skirts and matching blazers.

FLASH ON:

EX CU OF AN EYEBALL(The BRIDE's)

On her right is her French and Japanese lawyer, SOFIE FATALE.

FLASH ON:

EX CU OF AN EYEBALL

The bunch of mop-topped young men, who all wear black suits,

white shirts, thin black ties and Kato masks over their eyes,

are her soldiers, "The CRAZY 88."

FLASH ON:

EX CU OF AN EAR, The Bride's fingers come into FRAME and move

blonde hair out of the sensory appendage's way.

And finally there's a tall dark American in a black suit sans

Kato mask -- that's O-Ren's head of security, MR. BARREL.

They're all drinking and having a good time as Sofie tells a

joke in Japanese.

THE BRIDE(V.O.)

The mop tops in black suits and

Kato masks were O-Ren's soldiers,

"The Crazy 88." The two young girls

in the schoolgirl uniforms are her

personal bodyguards, the Yubari

sisters. Yuki, aged sixteen, and Go

Go, aged seventeen. The pretty lady

who's dressed like she's a villain

on Star Trek is O-Ren's best friend

and her lawyer, Sofie Fatale. And

finally, the American in the black

suit but sans Kato mask, O-Ren's

head of security, Mr. Barrel.

SUDDENLY O-Ren hears something. Like a deer in the forest,

her head springs up on alert. It's almost as if she's

listening to The Bride's narration.

The Bride's NARRATION SUDDENLY STOPS IN MIDSENTENCE --

O-Ren removes a SMALL DAGGER-DART from the folds of her robe

and THROWS IT in the direction of the sound.

CU The BRIDE dressed in a kimono

on the other side of the private dining room's paper wall.

The DART FLIES THROUGH The PAPER, STREAKS BY HER FACE, almost

taking off the tip of her nose in the process.

INSERT:
DART EMBEDS ITSELF IN A WOOD POST.

O-Ren's action instantly brings the room's frivolity to a

halt. Mistress Ishii silently orders Go Go and Yuki to

retrieve the eavesdropper.

INT. JAPANESE RESTAURANT - NIGHT

The white paper door to O-Ren's dining room SLAMS OPEN. Yuki

and Go Go step into the corridor.

All trace of the Bride has vanished.

They look out over the restaurant, patrons look normal.

Whoever was there is gone now.

Go Go removes the small dagger from the wood post and the

Yubari sisters go back into the private dining room, SLAMMING

the door behind them.

ONE SHOT:

CU The BRIDE

at the bar, in her kimono, drinking a colorful cocktail. She

observes all the activity by O-Ren's private dining room.

When the Yubari sisters go back inside, the Bride climbs off

her barstool and goes through the restaurant...into the

parking area...and up to her rental car. She opens the door.

Takes off her Japanese kimono, underneath is a one-piece

yellow track suit with a black stripe going down both sides,

like the one Bruce Lee wears in "Game of Death." She tosses

the kimono in the trunk, then removes the sheathed Hanzo

sword. With the sword of vengeance in her hand, we follow her

back inside the restaurant. She looks upstairs to the O-Ren

dining room. We see Yuki Yubari and Sofie Fatale, slide open

the door, and walk down the stairs together. When they get to

the bottom, they give each other a kiss goodbye, and Yuki

leaves the restaurant, while Sofie makes her way to the

bathroom...only to have The Bride, now dressed in her Bruce

Lee yellow outfit and samurai sword in her hand, bar her way.

END OF SHOT:

BACK AND FORTH:

between CU's of the two women, face to face.

SOFIE(JAPANESE)

(to Bride)

Can I help you?

THE BRIDE(JAPANESE)

Yes, I am looking for the attorney

of O-Ren Ishii, Sofie Fatale. Would

that be you?

SOFIE(JAPANESE)

I'm Mistress Ishii's attorney. How

can I help you?

The Bride PUNCHES her in the face.

INT. O-REN'S PRIVATE ROOM

Aside from drinking like fishes, what is the queen of the

Tokyo underworld - Mistress O-Ren Ishii - and her private

army doing when we cut back?

Singing karaoke, of course.

It's Crazy 88 MIKI's turn at the mike and he's having a whale

of a good time singing Dionne Warwick's "Walk On By," in

Japanese....

WHEN...

A COMMOTION is heard being made by the restaurant staff and

the other patrons, from the other side of the white paper

wall...Just as they all start to notice it, they hear;

THE BRIDE(O.S., JAPANESE)

O-Ren Ishii! You and I have

unfinished business!

The Crazy 88 spring to their feet. One slides open the door.

They see O-Ren's lawyer, Sofie Fatale, standing in the middle

of the restaurant, her left arm completely outstretched, hand

gripped around a post. She has a terrified look on her face.

Before anybody on O-Ren's side of the room can say anything

...The Bride steps out from behind Sofie.

O-REN'S

reaction shows how effective the element of surprise turned

out to be. She says The Bride's name softly to herself; it's

BLEEPED OUT.

The Bride

The VENGEANCE THEME BURSTS ON THE SOUNDTRACK...The Vein on

her forehead begins to pulsate. WE DO A QUICK SHAW BROTHERS

ZOOM INTO HER EYES. A SPAGHETTI-WESTERN FLASHBACK of O-Ren

beating the sh*t outta her at the wedding chapel IS

SUPERIMPOSED OVER HER EYES. The FLASHBACK DISSOLVES, we ZOOM

BACK INTO A CU, the vein stops pulsating, and the theme STOPS

PLAYING OVER THE SOUNDTRACK, LEAVING A CLEAN, COLORFUL CU of

The Bride loaded for bear.

She raises her Hanzo sword, and Slices off Sofie's Arm at the

Shoulder with one stroke.

SOFIE:

Spewing and Gushing Blood from her stump, twists her body in

agony, painting the floor and the walls with giant Splashes

of Red, as her body hits the floor, twitching in both

surprise and shock.

The CRAZY 88

run out into the dining area and create a human wall between

themselves and their Mistress.

MR. BARREL AND GO GO

take positions on either side of O-Ren.

O-REN

seated in a shogun's seat, rises furiously to her feet.

O-REN(JAPANESE)

You bastard!

The Bride does a swipe in the air with her sword; Sofie's

blood flies off the blade.

The entire floor of the dining room lies between the two

warring parties.

The Bride

vs.

The Crazy 88

The restaurant's STAFF and PATRONS sit or stand rigidly in

fear.

O-Ren says loudly to the room;

O-REN(JAPANESE)

Sorry everybody, but I'm afraid

we're going to have to close the

place. There's some private

business that we must attend to

now.

The Staff and The Customers Stampede the exits.

The Bride, The Crazy 88, and O-Ren hold their ground without

moving a muscle, till the dining room, as well as the entire

restaurant known as "The House of Blue Leaves," is deserted

of every human not engaged in the face-off that precedes

combat.

O-Ren gives a simple order;

O-REN

Miki.

MIKI, one of The Crazy 88(The little one), steps forward,

unsheaths his sword, and yells at the yellow clad blonde.

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