Ploydsge just watch it!

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

xgray-03873 This is movie is the primary example of why Hollywood needs to stop making terrible live-action U.S. film adaptations based off of certain anime shows and movies. This anime OAV is basically a simple concept to follow, but the filmmakers of the U.S. live-action version just wanna make it a repeat of Dragonball Evolution. Now the story is actually interesting to watch and the characters have a lot more to offer since it's basically Sawa out to get revenge on only one guy that she had known who was the murderer of her family. Now if the live-action U.S. movie had gotten rid of so many unnecessary crap and just stay true to the original, I would've been fine with that. But, nope. They just made it obvious that I should just stick with the anime, instead.Overall, I actually like this version a lot more than the live- action U.S. version.8 out 10!!!Definitely a must see.

tieman64 Released in 1998, "Kite" is a violent anime by director Yasuomi Umetsu. The film revolves around a schoolgirl named Sara who is orphaned in her early teens, whose parents are the victims of a gory double murder and who unwittingly finds herself becoming an assassin.In the late 1990s, the film would be idolised by teenagers for its elaborate, violent action sequences. Later, when they stumbled upon director's cuts of the film, many of the same fans would recoil in disgust. Labelled child pornography in many countries, these various cuts feature extended sex scenes in which the young Sara is repeatedly raped. These rapes are presented as titillation. But were the film's action sequences any different? The "assassin" or "hitman" genre has always had paedophillic undertones, even in the mainstream, with films like "Leon" and "Kick Ass". Violence itself always has a sexual element, and vice versa. Indeed, many English metaphors for sex have violent connotations. Sex is associated with hitting, the penis is oft treated as a weapon (fire blanks etc), various euphemisms (bang, beat it, tear it up, hit it, knock up) conceptualise sex as violence and even the modern, grammatically correct words we give male and female sex organs originated from explicitly violent Latin and Greek words (sheaths, swords etc). Today gaming terminology is similarly rife with sexual euphemisms (rape, owned, gang-bang, teabag etc).On a chemical level, the brain's reward systems for aggression and sex are also similar, whilst identical neurons in the hypothalamus light up during both belligerence and sex. Exposure to either also induces similar neurochemical pleasure responses (dopamine, oxytocin etc), which oft leads to addiction escalations in which the subject requires "harder" and "more intense" experiences of violence and/or sex.On a metaphysical level, the likes of Freud and Lacan have also recognised the overlaps between sex and violence. In psychoanalysis, for example, the death drive exists in opposition to the pleasure principle. But the pleasure principle is itself the death drive, as the aim of the instinct is in every instance a satisfaction which can only be obtained by either removing the state of stimulation, or by constructing a vicious circle of repeatedly transferred desires. The sex act, then, not only chases an unattainable ideal of wholeness, unity or an impossible end, but at its most extreme is predisposed to eventually seek an outright eradication of pleasure; the self desires both its own destruction and the annihilation of the Other. Suicidally, the self seeks to at once consume, destroy, violently merge with and transcend the Other; to go beyond ecstasy.In other cases, sexual fantasies may have unconscious intents which aren't even sexual. They often serve to assuage an existential lack, for example, whilst other violent forms of sex are acts of hatred, humiliation and dominance, pleasure derived from defiling the other or fuelled by the anger of having been made into an object and defiled oneself. Such fantasies lead into the psychological dead-end of sado-masochism. Pornography, in some cases, also has its basis in resentment, either unconscious or openly.Japanese animation is itself riddled with misogyny in all sorts of creepy manifestations. Such things range from slight to more overt stuff like rape and sexual assault scenes. "Kite's" multiple cuts - the film's essentially a series of murders and rapes - were themselves created to cater to different Eastern and Western demands. Western markets lapped up the film's stylised violence but balked at the sex, whilst unrated cuts of the film became cult hits in Japanese and European sex markets. Today, as Western social mores change, things like "Kite's" sexual assaults are increasingly viewed as just another acceptable part of power fantasies.4/10 – Worth one viewing. "Kite" would influence and be homaged in Tarantino's "Kill Bill".

IkuharaKunihiko A famous show master enters the elevator with his girlfriend. Suddenly, she kills him and runs away while an old lady gets a heart attack. The name of the female assassin is Sawa. She is still going to school and works for an vicious criminal, Akai, who is sleeping with her. One day Sawa finds out he killed her parents..------- Even the biggest anime fans will have to admit that this vicious action thriller is an disappointing gore fest. "Kite" has style, but it is still trash. The weird plot about a teenage girl that kills people as an assassin tried to be scary and touching at the same time, only causing the story to fall flat on it's face. One of the highlights is an action sequence in which the good/bad heroine Sawa is falling together with a bodyguard from a building, yet the dramatic structure isn't nearly as good orchestrated and the director Yasoumi Umetsu's weird and grotesque animation of the character's faces is awful. Not only that, the intercourse sequences are just simply creepy.Grade: 3/10

GreyFox37 ok, this is nuts. now, this is another title where a deep grasp of psychological understanding is necessary. now, in my opinion, going around and blowing peoples heads off for no apparent reason is..well..unorthodox. heh. still, if you understand the story, it is a very well thoughtout process of identity. if you like gore and going crazy, kite is for you