Kill Bill - The Whole Bloody Affair - The Quentin Tarantino Archives

The Whole Bloody Affair is the name for the integral version of Kill Bill. That version initially premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and was unseen until a theatrical wide release in December 2025. Quentin showed it at his theater a few times, but it remained almost a myth for decades. It is comprised of both Volumes of Kill Bill, plus material missing from the US and international versions (but was included in the Japanese release). The chapters remain in order, the cliffhangers and tags are dropped. Tarantino had Production IG do an additional seven minute anime sequence for the O-Ren chapter, which was reportedly not shown at Cannes (it wasn’t ready then). Empire Online was one of the few online magazines that provide a review of the uncut Kill Bill (at least in the Cannes version without the complete anime material) back then. The US theatrical release in December 2025 also added an additional mini episode for Yuki’s Revenge from the vidoe game fortnight (but this is not part of the VOD version).

The Differences

Main changes, according to Empire Online from their Cannes 2006 review:

No “klingon proverb” quote. Instead a dedication
House of Blue Leaves fight massacre in color, slightly differently cut
gorier anime scenes
extra anime footage added (stated in QT quote/Jan 09)
various other scenes slightly longer
Sofie Fatale loses more limbs
no “baby” cliffhanger ending
short (music-accompanied) intermission between two parts
Volume 2 is not different

Quentin Tarantino in an interview with us on January 12, 2009:
“We’ve actually added some things to it. We did a whole little chapter that I wrote and designed for the animated sequence, that we never did, because we figured, back when it was gonna be one big movie, it was going to be too long, so we didn’t do it. So when we were talking about re-releasing it, they asked is there anything you can put in, and I said no I put everything in there, but… there’s one sequence that we wouldn’t even have to shoot! So we got together with Production IG and did it, and it’s really cool. So it’s this little seven minute sequence, it’s really cool, it’s in the O-Ren chapter.” (Click here to read our interview with Tarantino on the Whole Bloody Affair).

Here is a detailed shot by shot comparison between Kill Bill Vols 1 and 2 (Japanese versions) and WBA (VOD version used)