9 Movie Scenes You Didn't Know Had A Guest Director

This one is a little different to just a director giving the camera over to somebody else. In fact, as Tarantino noted when he offered Nation’s Pride to Eli Roth, he doesn’t even consider this sequence in Kill Bill to have been guest directed.

However, the process for this scene is highly unusual, and the specialist assistance Tarantino received needs to be noted, even if he shot the final product himself.

While Tarantino has paid homage to many genres across his career, Kill Bill’s reliance on classic Japanese cinema is probably where it’s most apparent. It should come as no surprise then that for O-Ren Ishii’s origin scene, he turned to Japanese animation company Production IG.

Having worked on Ghost In The Shell and Blood: The Last Vampire, they came with quite a reputation.

Tarantino travelled to Japan and oversaw the initial planning process for the animation, going so far as to act out exactly how he wanted the scenes to be. Within a year, Production IG made his vision a reality. Several in house animation directors for IG worked under Tarantino, so while there’s no official guest directors, it wouldn’t be fair to say it was all Tarantino either.