US DVD
Warning - This Anime Bites!
The talented Yasuomi Umetsu's controversial
1998 sex and violence classic.
The Finest Anime Noir - a dark tale of crime and sex... and yes,
hardcore sex that is. The story's simple
indeed but very effectively told with some amazing action scenes and a tremendous
pace and pulse to it.
It's a story about teenage girl, professional killer Sawa, whose parents got
killed when still in her young teens.
She's been trained by 2 vigilantes, sadistic cop Akai and his friend Kanie
they're hunting the scum of society,
rapist's and killers. Besides using her as a mindless killer machine they're
also using and abusing her sexually
(and started when she was way too young - this making this DVD forbidden to
sell in many countries).
There's also the teenage boy killer Oburi, also under the control of Akai.
When Sawa finds out that Akai and
Kanie were the one's murdering her parents, there's revenge coming up.
Stylish ultra-violence and some hardcore sex
to a great jazz soundtrack. Beware, this isn't a film for anyone and
probably not for the mainstream cute-anime audience out there, who will try
to dismiss this as just another hentai
film (japanese anime sexfilm). Producer Koshinonaka says that the hardcore
sex scenes had to be added for
Umetsu to get full control over the project. Otherwise there were no other
more "normal" backers/investors out
there willing to give the then "unknown" Umetsu full project control.
This way, if a failure, they at least had some
money pouring in from the x-rated market. There are some different versions
of this great film, also censored
without the sex scenes, and the hardcore sex really isn't much needed for
the greatness of this film, i think, besides
maybe to show the disturbing abusive nature of the Sawa - Akai relation, but
this could be done without hardcore.
Uncut adult version DVD from US Media Blasters Kitty Media (60 min) 4:3, 5.1
or 2.0 japanese with english subs
or english dub. Extra stuff: An interview with Yasuomi Umetsu (2004) and with
producer Osamu Koshinonaka
(2004), Story Boards and a Gallery