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“ | Look at me, Matsumoto... Take a good look at my face. Look at my eyes. Look at my mouth. Do I look familiar? Do I look like somebody... you murdered!? | „ |
~ O-Ren Ishii as she gutted Matsumoto. |
Matsumoto is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Bill) of the 2003 film Kill Bill Vol. 1, the first installment of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill film series.
He was a sadistic and ruthless Yakuza boss in Tokyo, Japan, who was responsible for the deaths of O-Ren Ishii's unnamed parents which ultimately led O-Ren to pursue her own quest for vengeance against the Yakuza boss.
He was voiced by Naomi Kusumi.
Description[]
Physical Appearance[]
Matsumoto was a man in his late sixties with grey hair and wrinkly skin. He was also slightly overweight and during the incident, wore a blue kimono while also smoking a cigar. Later, when O-Ren tortured him, it was shown that Matsumoto also had tattoos on his upper left arm, his right arm and back.
Personality[]
Though Matsumoto had limited screen time, he showed himself to be an extremely evil individual. He was a sadist who killed without hesitation, happily doing the dirty work alongside his henchmen as long as he was the one to ultimately deliver the final killing blow which he did to O-Ren's mother, having been laughing seconds after O-Ren's father was murdered although it was cut short by a coughing fit. He was also a pedophile who attempted to have sex with O-Ren, an eleven year old girl. Unfortunately for him, this turned out to be his downfall, as he was assassinated when his guard was down, by the very girl he was intending to rape.
Biography[]
One evening and when O-Ren was only nine years old, Matsumoto and his men presumably broke into the Ishii house one evening and as Matsumoto watched, two of his men fought Mr. Ishii while another held Mrs. Ishii hostage by using a sword. Although Mr. Ishii put up a brave fight against Matsumoto's men, two of whom Mr. Ishii killed, one of them, a man named Riki eventually got the better of Mr. Ishii by killing him, having impaled him in the chest with a katana before piercing the back of his skull or head with the same katana seconds later. After Mr. Ishii had bled all over the living room with Mr. Ishii dying as O-Ren witnessed the killing. Riki then looked at O-Ren who was hiding underneath the bed and smirked, causing O-Ren to begin shaking with fury as Matsumoto began laughing, having found the incident amusing. Seconds later, with any of trace of Mr. Ishii's blood on the katana having been removed thanks to Riki wiping it, Matsumoto dragged Mrs. Ishii over to the bed which happened to be the same one nine-year-old O-Ren was hiding under and then killed her by piercing her heart and chest with the same sword that had killed Mr. Ishii. The sword after going through Mrs. Ishii's chest, Mrs. Ishii who had begun screaming the moment she realized she was about to be executed, missed young O-Ren by about an inch, the blade ending up just a few meters away from her right ear and after O-Ren called for her mother with tears escaping her eyes, blood emerged, soaking the whole bed and landing on O-Ren's face. Matsumoto and his men later left the house, obviously pleased with themselves while Riki who had stayed behind used some alcohol that had been destroyed when he'd fired a gun at it and Matsumoto's leftover cigar to trigger a fire which ultimately burnt down the house, destroying any evidence connecting Matsumoto and his own men to the horrific crime with Riki presumably also hoping the fire would kill O-Ren. Unbeknownst to him, however, O-Ren managed to escape but was ultimately left psychologically and emotionally damaged at having witnessed the brutal killings at such a young age which led to her swearing revenge against Matsumoto.
Two years later and now at the age of eleven, O-Ren, knowing that Matsumoto was a pedophile and having undergone intense training in preparation for the moment in which she would exact her revenge gained access into Matsumoto's private quarters disguised as a child prostitute and proceeded to torture him by impaling him in the chest with a sword and she gleefully watched as the pain took its toll on Matsumoto's body with his teeth even being shattered by the torture. During this, O-Ren asked Matsumoto to listen to her voice and take a careful look at her face before he took his last dying breaths. Matsumoto's eyes widened for a moment as he came to realize (too late) that O-Ren, his attacker, was in fact the young girl he failed to assassinate the same night he killed her parents. O-Ren then viciously removed the sword from Matsumoto's chest and was drenched in his blood, watching as Matsumoto died a slow and painful death. Two of his bodyguards then came to investigate with O-Ren killing both men before fleeing, having successfully avenged her parents but this also marked the beginning of O-Ren's own descent into the Japanese criminal world.
External Links[]
- Matsumoto on the Pure Evil Wiki
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