US DVD

At first: YEEEEES! Finally a new film from my favourite anime director the un-tamable wild talent Umetsu.
The Anime Legend behind the Controversial Sex and Violence Masterpieces Kite and Mezzo Forte.
However, this is a weird film with a couple of different and seemingly un-matchable stories mixed into one.
BUT! This is Umetsu after all, so it's still very enjoyable in a deliciously visual, stylish sort of way.
Is this a pilot to an eventual new series? If so, that could explain the strange storyline and abrupt ending.

A very loose continuation of his theme from the 1998 Kite, the very controversial Sex & Violence explosion.
Shy Highschool-girl Monaka (voice: Marina Inoue) lives at her uncle, due to her father being an astronaut on
a space station mission. She works extra at nights at a sleazy cafe with lots of pervert guests, and her boss
could be a nice man or a monster, we don't know for sure yet. Her fellow waitress is single mom Ms. Mukai.
So far, so good, but then Monaka (even later at night i guess, she must be sleepy at school) also is a professional
killer, The Angel of Death that does away with free un-convicted murderers and rapists, after which she
spreads a cloud of white feathers as her sign. And then her father crasch-lands on earth turned to a monster from
nutrition experiments and/or cosmic radiation. She's gets into the ensuing wild chase and then.....the film ends!?

What? What did i just see? Anyway, i want to see more. Please Mr. Umetsu, give us the rest too
anamorfic widescreen 1.78:1, 5.1 eller 2.0 japanese with english subs (or an english dub) Extra: An alternative
version shown at the Tokyo Film Festival 2007, some trailers

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