This impact then sends the whole pile through the ground into a subway station. The weight of their impact somehow sends the car through the bottom of the overpass, landing on a truck waiting below the overpass. They then proceed to latch onto a neon sign, which breaks off at the hinges, sending them falling once more until they land on the roof of a car waiting on an overpass. Overly-Long Gag: After a particularly lengthy and brutal fight scene, the mood is lightened somewhat after a bodyguard latches onto Sawa, throwing her and himself out the hole in the wall from said scene in a high-rise building.Although he initially acts like he's a Vigilante Man or something, it is later made clear that he's only using Sawa as his personal assassin. Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Akai.Nobody is named Kite, and kites are not a part of the film. Non-Indicative Name: You'd think by the title that the heroine is named "Kite," but actually it's Sawa.Meaningful Name: "Akai" means "red" in Japanese, and Sawa's flashback sequences often involve red (sometimes blood-related) imagery.Market-Based Title: In Japanese, it's known as A KITE.Kick the Son of a Bitch: The targets Sawa and Oburi are sent to kill are often Dirty Cops and Corrupt Corporate Executives.I Fell for Hours: See Overly-Long Gag below. In addition, Akai is shot multiple times in the groin by Sawa near the end of the film.Happens to an unfortunate mook during a botched hit.Gorn: Sawa shoots her targets with exploding bullets.Very soon, Oburi will come home to us - right?" Sawa (to Oburi's cats): "Be patient, my friends. Tellingly, while the young boy screams and ducks, the young girl just calmly watches him as he walks away. He overreacts slightly by tossing the ball at the basket before shooting it with explosive ammunition. Foreshadowing: After meeting Sawa for the first time, Oburi is struck by a puddle of water from an errant basketball as he walks by a pair of children playing in an alley."Everybody Dies" Ending: Every main character save Sawa is dead by the end.Downer Ending: After they escape their former "guardians" to start a new life together, Oburi is ambushed and murdered by the same young girl he encountered earlier while Sawa patiently waits for him at home.Dirty Cop: Akai and his partner Kanie, who make it a habit of kidnapping and raping young women, as well as training children to be their personal assassins.Diabolus ex Machina: Oburi's death-from-out-of-nowhere that leads to the OVA's Downer Ending.Corruption of a Minor: Akai and Kanie are in the business of turning orphaned young children into ruthless assassins-for-hire.
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