Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) is a formally ambitious genre exercise drawing on samurai cinema, martial arts films, and spaghetti westerns, centered on Uma Thurman's performance as a former assassin seeking revenge. The film was released simultaneously in Japan in October 2003 and carried particular cultural resonance there, given its direct engagement with Japanese genre cinema and its casting of Sonny Chiba and Lucy Liu alongside sequences set in Tokyo. This original Japanese B2 was produced for that October 2003 theatrical campaign and features the teaser-style composition with Thurman in the yellow tracksuit holding a katana, the image that became one of the most recognized promotional artifacts of 2000s cinema. The Japan-release-specific typography and layout make this a distinct piece within the Kill Bill poster canon.