![]() 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” is released and distributed by CAPTIVE CINEMA.Kite revolves around a schoolgirl named Sawa who is orphaned in her early teens. It was really important that I keep her comfortable and help her get through whatever she’s trying to get through,” Jackson said, basically being nothing like his character. “I focused more on my relationship with her, and how to keep it honest, in whatever honesty a person like that can have, and trying to keep her comfortable. Dark though the plot of girl assassins and corrupt men may be, what Jackson did to build something emotionally with India Eisley and her character Sawa. He’s in that place and he uses subterfuge and lies to get things done.”Īkers sounds like a man who fits well into the darkness Jackson embraced for this film. I tried to make them real human traits that aren’t props.” Yet he wanted Akers to be real too. “I wanted to keep the steel that is his personality and the toughness and the deviousness of him. However the Mr Akai part is very distinctive itself, and there were aspects of the original that Jackson chose to keep. Over the years he’s certainly proved that with his choices of roles, and Karl Akers is sure to be one of the darker parts in a distinguished career of making characters his own. I’m willing to do what the story’s about… I like dark.” I knew what I was stepping into because I’m very familiar with the story. ![]() “They didn’t tell it as hard as I wanted to tell it… I’m always of the mind that – look you knew what you were choosing when you chose it. Jackson wasn’t sure exactly what the original intention was but he was ready for anything. The relationship between Sawa and Aker is a complex one and, in the anime, sexual and dark, but what translates into the movie was up for questioning. Jackson plays the anglicized version of Mr Akai (now Karl Aker) – the cop who takes in orphaned Sawa, played by India Eisley, and makes her into a deadly weapon. “When I commit to a project I kinda see it through, so I stayed. When I heard was doing it I was like, ‘Tell him I’d like to be a part of it’.” However, Ellis passed away before the project could really take off. “I’ve always liked the story, I’ve watched it for years. Yasuomi Umetsu’s Kite was a cutting edge anime that skirts the definition of hentai as it tells the story of young assassins in a futuristic city. ![]()
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