The 57-minute Kite Liberator (2008) is set several years later and features another female vigilante, Monaka, whose astronaut father has been transformed into a bone-monster by eating irradiated space curry. only arrived in a single 45-minute episode from Anime Works in 2000, a "director's cut" totaling 51 minutes released by Kitty Media (the erotic subsidiary of the same Media Blasters that also owns Anime Works) in 2002, and finally Kitty Media's Kite Uncut in 2004. Owing to the hard-hitting nature of the original, its complete release in the U.S. But as the videocover panty shots of Sawa attest, Kite is far more interested in titillating its audience with sex and violence than it is with condemning them. Remade with a longer running time and high-quality animation, he concentrates on balletic, graceful fight choreography amid utter mayhem, and a poignant tale of doomed love between two damaged souls. Umezu had formerly treated the same themes and ideas in Yellow Star, one of the entries in the COOL DEVICES erotica series. There are also tips of the hat to Takashi Miike's Fudoh (1996), particularly a vicious restroom shootout. Most notable is John Badham's Point of No Return (1993, itself a remake of Luc Besson's earlier La Femme Nikita), in which a pretty killer is trapped within the organization that has made her. She starts to fall for a boy on a mission with her, but she also comes to realize that the man she now calls father (and lover) is the man who killed her parents.Įxcessively violent and featuring scenes of child abuse and underage sex that had to be cut even for the liberal American market, Kite draws on several live-action movies for its inspiration. Kept in line by drugs and sexual abuse at the hands of corrupt cop Akai, she is sent out armed with explosive bullets to assassinate criminals the law cannot touch. Sawa is a teenage girl and an agent for an underground ring of vigilantes who has been traumatized by the deaths of her parents.
She's a cold-blooded killer, and if you're on the wrong side of the law, you may be her next target. She may seem innocent and naive, but don't be fooled.
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