Quentin Tarantino is getting hit with a plagiarism lawsuit.

E! Online is reporting that the Inglourious Basterds director is being accused, along with former Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein, of stealing the concept for a deadly assassin character in Kill Bill.

According to E!, in the suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Dannez Hunter claims he submitted a treatment to Miramax back in 1999 featuring a character named Ren Short who hails from a historical Samurai lineage and watches his mother brutally murdered “in a cartoon format.”

Tarantino’s 2004 movie, Kill Bill, features a female character named O-Ren Ishii, played by Lucy Liu. In an Anime sequence O-Ren witnesses her parents killed on orders from a Japanese mob boss. She eventually becomes a member of the Deadly Vipers assassin squad (her name is Cottonmouth) and takes her revenge by assuming control of the Tokyo Yakuza.

Aside from the copyright claim, E! says Hunter, who describes himself as a minority and former “inner-city youth,” makes a separate allegation that the Disney subsidiary passed him over for employment and hired less qualified Jews and whites instead.

“[Plaintiff] was never given a return phone call, as numerous similar situated less qualified Jewish and White people were bestowed job after job after job,” Hunter alleges.

Seven years after the release of the first film, E! says Hunter is seeking $1 million in damages.