You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Akai sends Oburi on a Uriah Gambit to supposedly kill an Amoral Attorney, who in reality was a SWAT officer who responds with a gun of his own.

Yank the Dog's Chain: Having had to live through hell, it seems that Oburi and Sawa could be happy together, only for Oburi to be killed before he can reunite with Sawa.

Trick Bullet: Sawa uses special bullets that have a time-delayed explosion.

Small Girl, Big Gun: Sawa, though it's less the size of the gun and more about the size of the hole it makes moments after the bullets hit you.

Sexy Secretary: During the above mentioned action sequence in which Sawa falls down a skyscraper, the action briefly cuts into an office building in which a corporate suit is having sex with his secretary as Sawa falls past the window.

Rape as Backstory: Aki did this to Sawa in part to 'condition' her.

It's like They Live! crossed with Wanted. sending Sawa hurtling through another window into an adjacent building. Then the neon sign falls onto everything, causing the truck to explode. 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.Corrupt the Cutie: Aki's MO taking an innocent girl and turning her into a cold-blooded killer who's also essentially his sex slave.Kanye stops, draws his gun, sighs, says 'Oh, it's just you,' and then continues on with the sex. Coitus Uninterruptus: Akai walks in on his partner Kanye having sex with a young woman.Naturally, she gets very upset when she loses one during a botched assassination. Body to Jewel: Akai had some of Sawa's parents' blood fashioned into a set of earrings, which have been her most prized possession ever since.Action Girl: Sawa, although Sawa didn't exactly choose to be one.Has a Live-Action Adaptation directed by Ralph Ziman. This page is for the censored version only. It's followed by a sequel, Kite Liberator.

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