Kite (anime)

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Original video animation
title Kite
Original title A KITE
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 1998
Studio Arms
length 30 minutes
Episodes 2
genre Action, drama
Director Yasuomi Umetsu
idea Yasuomi Umetsu
music At Fu
synchronization

Kite , Japanese title A kite is an adult - OVA from the year 1998 . The action drama was directed by Yasuomi Umetsu, who also wrote the script and character design .

On March 21, 2008 the successor Kite Liberator was released.

action

Akai is a Japanese police officer who recruits children to carry out contract killings. The victims are pedophiles and people who can be dangerous to him. The children are highly professional killers who brutally kill their victims with special weapons.

Akai has started a relationship with Sawa, a young girl who also works for him. The policeman murdered Sawa's parents, but she doesn't know. Since he promised to find the murderers, she accepted him as protector. Over time, however, she realizes that Akai must be the killer. Nevertheless, she stayed with him for lack of other caregivers.

During an assignment, Sawa meets the boy Oburi, who is also involved in the assignment. Since he has no family and probably the same fate as Sawa, the two grow closer.

Akai sees a danger to himself in this relationship and gives Sawa the order to kill Oburi. Instead, the young couple decides to kill Akai and his helper Kanie. The attempt fails, Oburi is now to be murdered by Kanie. Sawa is able to convince Akai of her loyalty and learns the place where this should happen.

The next day, Akai is surprised to find that it is not Oburi but his helper Kanie who is dead. He suspects that Oburi has outwitted his helper and seeks him out. To his surprise, Sawa waits for him, who kills him.

In the last scene in which Sawa is waiting for her boyfriend Oburi, another young girl shoots him. She uses one of the special weapons that Sawa also used.

publication

The film was originally created as a two-part original video animation . It was animated by Arms and distributed by Green Bunny . The first episode was released in Japan on February 25, 1998, while the second was released on VHS on October 25 of the same year .

The two approximately 30-minute episodes were cut together in other countries and released as a one-hour film. Kite was published in several countries, but mostly only in a very shortened version due to pornographic scenes.

The German version under the label OVA18 by OVA Films was published in 2000 by its exclusive distributor ACOG . This version consists of 55 minutes. Kite was shown on November 22nd, 2000 as part of the dctp program as Kite - A dangerous girl on VOX .

Remarks

  • The climax of the film is the assignment from Sawa to kill an American actor who is in the company of his twin brother and his two bodyguards. Sawa ambushes him in a toilet, in which there is a wild shooting. She can only get out of the situation by using highly explosive mini bombs. When she approaches a hole in the wall, the surviving bodyguard jumps at her and the two fall out of the skyscraper. During the fall, the two fight each other and then end up on a cart that is on an overpass. The car breaks down through the overpass and lands on a tanker truck, which in turn breaks through the ground into a subway station. An advertising sign that was subsequently detached from the wall of the high-rise building due to the damage fell on the tank truck and blew it up. Sawa is thrown into a house by the blast and lands gently on a bed.
  • The beginning of this scene, including the fall from the skyscraper, is reenacted in the music video Ex-Girlfriend of No Doubt , directed by Hype Williams .

synchronization

Note: The names of the Japanese voice actors are pseudonyms that they have adopted for this production.

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
1. Synchro 2. Synchro
Sawa Kotomi Naruse Barbara Seifert Nicole Hannak
Oburi Shingo Oyamada Marco Steeger
Akai Gorō Shibusawa Joachim Rudolph Dirk Mueller
Kanie Tatsuo Matoba

criticism

“The plot is almost identical to Jean-Luc Besson's film“ Nikita ”, but“ Kite ”is an independent, well-made action thriller that seriously deals with the subject of violence. Yasuomi Umetsu pays a lot of care to a sophisticated, realistic drawing, also in the murder and some blunt erotic scenes. "

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Actual filming

Directed by Ralph Ziman, the American real- life film Kite - Angel of Vengeance was made in 2014 . Callan McAuliffe in the role of Oburi , India Eisley as Sawa and Samuel L. Jackson can be seen in leading roles . The German launch of the film was on October 2, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kite - A Dangerous Girl. In: OFDb. Retrieved August 29, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Back of the DVD. Retrieved August 29, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Kite - A Dangerous Girl. In: fernsehserien.de. Retrieved August 29, 2010 .
  4. ↑ https://www.synchronkartei.de/?action=show&type=serie&id=19541
  5. ↑ https://www.synchronkartei.de/?action=show&type=serie&id=26590
  6. ↑ Kite - A Dangerous Girl. Anime no Tomodachi, accessed August 29, 2010 .
  7. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/216903.html