The first installment of an epic tale of revenge finds a woman, known only as The Bride, awake after a four-year coma, vowing to exact revenge on the team of assassins who left her for dead at the altar.

Let’s admit it: Uma Thurman in a Bruce Lee tracksuit holding a katana is one of the most iconic images of the millennium. The world’s favorite maverick director pays tribute to the films he worships—wuxia, kung fu, western—in this gloriously honest love letter to genre itself. High voltage.