Movies starring Uma Thurman, David Carridine; directed by Quentin Tarentino

Uma plays a martial arts expert who falls for Bill, an older man (David Carridine) who has a cadre of professional assassins (don't stop reading, it's better than that.)
The lover, Carridine, tells her she needs furthur training and sends her to the greatest teacher in the world--an old man with long white hair and beard who wears white Samurai clothing. She works her fingers to the bone to please the old man and learn from him, and earns the master's grudging respect.

He teaches her how to master a maneuver where she can smash her fist through wooden planks, which comes in handy when she is buried alive and has to smash her way out of a box a villian has buried her in underground.

Now I admit a lot of things about these two movies are hokey, but great fun to watch. Uma takes down dozens of men with swords in one fight, until her nemesis Jen-Ri takes her on personally. They go out back of the place, and it is one of the most beautiful scenes in movies. It is night, with a deep bluish night sky overhead. A light snow is falling, and the only illumination is a yellow swath of light across the snow from an open door. The only sound is from a wooden ladle that fills with water and empties with a soft thunk, over and over again.

Jen-Ri is wearing a white kimono; she and Uma do battle and Uma is victorious, and the white clad Jen-Ri falls onto the snow.
Uma discovers she is pregnant while out on a mission Bill has sent her own, and tries to run away and lose herself in small town life out west. Bill finds her and Uma and her entire engagement party are slaughtered. Uma survives but is in a coma for four years.
When she awakes, from a mosquito bite, she recovers and seeks revenge on Bill. Like I say, you have to suspend belief but both the movies are entertaining.

If they come back on AMC I'll watch again.

susil