Oburi confronts Akai and tells him that he and Sawa are both leaving, but Akai overpowers and savagely beats him. When Oburi shows up alive, Kanie sends him after a corrupt district attorney, but the man is actually a SWAT officer, who nearly kills Oburi before Sawa arrives and saves him. During it, she loses one of her earrings and sustains several minor injuries. The bodyguards of this target nearly kill her in a struggle in the men's restroom. She lets Oburi live and goes to take out her next target. Realizing that Sawa has the drop on him, Oburi tells her that Akai and Kanie were the ones who murdered her parents, but Sawa reveals that she has known that for years. Oburi is leaving Akai and Kanie's service after killing three more targets, but Akai orders Sawa to kill Oburi instead of letting him go. Due to their relationship, Sawa slowly gains the emotional strength to escape from her guardians to set out on her own.
Sawa's assassinations are famous among the police for her use of special bullets that explode inside the body after piercing the skin.Įventually, Sawa meets a fellow assassin named Oburi, who is of a similar age, and a bond quickly forms between them. Subsequently, over the years, she kills whomever she is ordered to, including corrupt police officers and corporate fat cats. Sawa is an assassin, who the corrupt detectives make kill an alleged rapist of young girls. Akai also gave her a pair of crystal earrings, each one allegedly containing the blood of one of her parents. Akai has had a sexual relationship with Sawa for the duration of his guardianship. The detectives investigating the crime, Akai and Kanie, are her guardians. Sawa kills him, and the old lady dies of a heart attack sometime later, after feeling around for her glasses in the bloody aftermath.
When the film opens, Sawa is on a date with a celebrity, but he begins yelling at an old lady, who had rebuked him for promiscuous ways, being on a date with such a young girl. Her parents are the victims of a gory double murder. Kite revolves around a schoolgirl named Sawa who is orphaned in her early teens. However, subsequent releases, including all three DVD releases in the United States, have edited the OVA into a film. Two 35-minute episodes were released on VHS on February 25 and October 25, 1998, respectively. If I had actually paid any money for this, I would be righteously pissed.Kite, known as A Kite ( Japanese: A カイト) in Japan, is a Japanese original video animation written and directed by Yasuomi Umetsu. This is like tearing a book in two, selling the first half and never publishing the rest. There is some potential for a second half, but I doubt it will ever happen. This is mostly a monster mash, which we’ve seen any number of times before. While I’m not normally one to criticize a film for a lack of sex, this also lacks the severely transgressive or original qualities which made the original infamous. Even up to that point, this is problematic in a bunch of way, not least that Monaka is almost a minor character, and it appears to be a sequel in little more than name. Really: WTF? On its own, this is such an entirely pointless release, you have to wonder what happened. Which is pretty much where it ends, after a first battle between Monaka and him. A cover-up ensues, despite a trail of corpses, and Monaka is given her next mission: to kill the monster, unaware that it’s actually her father. After a firefight, Doi and his team bail out as the station disintegrataes, but the monster that Monaka’s father has become, is also on their craft, which crash-lands – conveniently right in her neighbourhood. However, it appears a combination of factors such as radiation, results in the astronauts mutating into monstrous creatures. His space-station is visited by Kōichi Doi, a researcher investigating ways to preserve bone density in zero-G. Monaka’s father is an astronaut, who has been in space for years. In between tracking down and killing paedophiles, she has a regular identity as a klutzy waitress at a cafe, where he co-worker Mukai (Okamura) protects her from the sleazy patrons.
We’re a decade on from the events of the original Kite, and it seems Sawa has – without explanation – morphed into Monaka (Inoue). Oh, and speaking of mad scientists, there’s one of those in here too. Six years on, that still hasn’t materialized, making this about as appetizing as a half-cooked chicken. If so, he clearly got bored and drifted off while the project was half complete, because this ends in a way which doesn’t so much suggest another part, as demand it unconditionally.
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“Half a star deducted, for being only half a movie.”Īnd not a very good movie at that, suffering from such multiple personality disorder, it sometimes feels that two completely different anime were spliced together in some mad scientist’s laboratory.
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