The anime Kite starring Samuel L. Jackson, Callan McAuliffe and India Eisley is out on DVD and Blu-ray October 13th.Kite - Samuel L Jackson

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson India Eisley, Callan McAuliffe

Directed by: Ralph Ziman

DVD: £15.99 / Cat.No: ABD1224

Blu-ray: £19.99 / Cat.No: ABB8208

Cert: 15 

Yasuomi Umetsu’s hard-edged anime KITE is finally making its way onto DVD and Blu-ray on 13 October 2014. 

In a vast, multicultural and decimated urban landscape, post-financial collapse, SAWA, a beautiful but emotionally detached girl, lives a secret life as a covert assassin.

The daughter of a police detective involved in the investigation of human trafficking, she was orphaned at the tender age of 12 when an unknown assailant targeted both of her parents.

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Now 18, Sawa is a human time-bomb intent upon eliminating members of the flesh-cartels whom she presumes murdered her family — men who exploit the defenseless children of a collapsed society for the pleasure of high-paying, foreign clients.

Her father’s ex-partner, INSPECTOR KARL AKER, is a renegade cop who believes that the only way to eradicate the problems of a corrupt and failed state is to take the law into his own hands. With his help they have sworn to avenge her parent’s death by taking out the head of the cartel, a mysterious man known only as The Emir.

Sequestered in a cryptic lifestyle that she shares only with him, Sawa is dependent upon Aker. A powerful, dominating figure, twice her age, he is a supportive, surrogate father, and under his tutelage she has become an emotionless killing machine skilled at infiltrating the flesh-cartels and liquidating its members. 

Also known as “A Kite,” Yasuomi Umetsu’s original anime, when first released in 1998, was a highly controversial graphic story of hard action and illicit eroticism.  It was banned in certain countries but also sold to worldwide cult acclaim.  In Japan, where it was released in various installments and editions, it has sold nearly a million DVD units.  It has also been released in Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russian, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the United States – where it remains popular.

Kite is available to buy on DVD and Blu-ray on 13th October 2014.  

Here is its gripping trailer:

 

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