#ANIME A KITE 2014 MOVIE#

The rest of the characters aren't too bad, some play their parts a little too over the top for my taste, and some play their parts just right. In the end I think Oburi gets the short end of the stick as far as characters go.

It gave his character a lot of dimension, here Oburi is written as straight good and is doing all the best he can to save Sawa's life. One of the things I liked best about Oburi's character in the original anime is that he was just another teen drawn into this life of violence that he didn't want.

#ANIME A KITE 2014 MOVIE#

Oburi gets a lot more to do in this movie than he did in the last movie, but I'm not exactly sure if I enjoyed his character being changed to one of Sawa's childhood friends – if not only childhood friend. Unforutnately the script does make it painfully obvious to all the characters that something just ain't quite right with the man and that is a big setback. He's subdued in acting, and that works in Aker's favor. Jackson does his best to play can't-be-too-trusted cop and double-edged sword character. The name Aker is a callback to the original character of Sawa's employer from the anime, Akai. Jackson and Callan McAauliffe are both great as Karl Aker and Oburi, respectively. I think more women wish they had a defense weapon like that to carry around with them. There's one scene in particular I quite enjoyed seeing in this movie and that's seeing Sawa take a dildo and shove it into a guy's mouth only for it to fire a bullet out the back end of his head. She comes well equipped for the job as well, we get to see the purse-turned-gun a few times and she even has the time-bomb bullets (this time they have a more well-rounded countdown to when they explode). They rework the story by adding new characters, and give familiar characters like Oburi (Callan McAuliffe) more room to work than the previous OVA did. The same conclusion, but different paths are taken to get there. I still stand by that point, but what Cox and Ziman do here is rework Sawa's story into something with a different angle and wider choices. In the original review I stated that I felt the sex served a purpose for Sawa's character growth and that this is a story that is hindered by not including them. One smart move Ziman and screenwriter Brian Cox make is leaving out all of the sex from the original OVA. This isn't your grandpa's Kite and I imagine that's for the better. In fact I think I'm the only one who did, but that's okay.

Now, I've looked around, gauged what others thought of this film as it did have a lot to prove – it comes from very risque and edgy source material – and the storyline just isn't something that can be translated completely onto a live-action screen. Kite, amazingly enough, is one of these films.

Anime a kite 2014