New KITE Poster Spotlights India Eisley As 'Sawa'

New KITE Poster Spotlights India Eisley As 'Sawa'

"Never underestimate a girl with nothing to lose." This new one-sheet for the upcoming live-action remake of Yasuomi Umetsu's controversial 1998 Japanese anime (which also stars Samuel L. Jackson) features India Eisley as the very dangerous young Sawa.

By MarkCassidy - Aug 19, 2014 04:08 PM EST
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Source: Via Cine 1

A cult classic, by Yasuomi Umetsu, renowned for its stylistically graphic depictions of violent action and sensuality, concerns a young woman named Sawa who, after the murder of her parents, is taken off the streets by a crooked, Svengali-like detective employing homeless children to do his dirty work. Trained to kill, she exacts street justice against the detective’s chosen targets, until she is able to break free of the abusive and manipulative control he has over her.

Kite stars Samuel L. Jackson as Karl Aker, India Eisley as Sawa, Callan McAuliffe as Oburi, Russel Savadier as Old Boy, Jaco Muller as Kratsov, Liam J. Stratton as Sawa's Father and Keci Eatock as Young Sawa. The movie hits DirecTV on August 28th, and VOD and theatres on October 10th., Callan McAuliffe as Oburi, Russel Savadier as Old Boy, Jaco Muller as Kratsov, Liam J. Stratton as Sawa's Father and Keci Eatock as Young Sawa. The movie hits DirecTV on August 28th, and VOD and theatres on October 10th.
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FrankLeeGitnit
FrankLeeGitnit - 8/19/2014, 4:39 PM
First.. aaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
UltimateCookie
UltimateCookie - 8/19/2014, 4:40 PM
I'm excited for this movie. It seems to cool.
RobertLiefeld
RobertLiefeld - 8/19/2014, 5:18 PM
India Eisley is gorgeous, i'll go watch this.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 8/19/2014, 6:44 PM
Movie looks very co. Like a nice bloody over the top action flick. Reminds me of old b movie action flick....like a modern day 70s exploitation film
LensmanMatt92
LensmanMatt92 - 8/19/2014, 7:01 PM
Yes because it worked so well the last time Hollywood made a movie based on the manga.(Dragonball Evolution)
TheSoulEater
TheSoulEater - 8/19/2014, 7:48 PM

See more on Know Your Meme
Pox
Pox - 8/19/2014, 9:27 PM
Poster would be more anime-accurate if it read:

"Never underestimated a girl repeatedly raped by the corrupt police officer who murdered her parents in the first place"
Ceejay
Ceejay - 8/19/2014, 10:57 PM
Wow, that wig is just sitting high on her head.
vinomonster
vinomonster - 8/19/2014, 11:22 PM
Are they doing the explicit version or this will be PG13?
Oxbow
Oxbow - 8/19/2014, 11:40 PM
this reminds me of kabuki and the masks of the noh
mgeoff88
mgeoff88 - 8/20/2014, 6:34 AM
Wow... I don't know who India Eisley is, but she is very beautiful.
HachibiTheMC
HachibiTheMC - 8/20/2014, 7:27 AM
I will admit I am intrigued but fairly skeptical. Since the original anime was fairly rapey, Im interested to see if they're going to go with the Old Boy route of hacking it to shit in the editing room and bastardizing the main plot to appease mainstream squeamishness...

Spike Lee's Old Boy was 140 minutes. After Producers were done...105 minutes including edits to the hammer fight scene. How do you "edit" a one-shot scene?!!! Ri-damn-diculous...

I'm hoping for a Director's Cut just to see the differences.

Any anime-to-live project should take copious notes from Keishi Otomo-san and them boys over at Studio Swan (Director and Prod Company that did Rurouni Kenshin and its two sequels). They're killin the anime2live genre right now.

Even including Edge of Tomorrow it's not even close.
KelvTwelve
KelvTwelve - 8/20/2014, 9:37 AM
It's a really common thing now a days for Directors to work with the original creators extremely closely when working on a project.

Robert Rodriguez did it with Frank Miller for Sin City, Guillermol del Toro and Mike Mignola worked on Hellboy together, Edgar Wright worked hand in Hand with Bryan Lee O'Malley for Scott Pilgrim, and Geoff Johns is one of the head guys for Arrow and the Flash.

This doesn't seem as easy to do with anime adaptations, but when people do work hand in hand with the original people - the work shows. It's actually rare when a creator can get the original peoples' visual ideas.

Unless it's one of the creators of Ninja Turtles, I can't remember who it was but he's like Stan Lee. He approves everything.
marvel72
marvel72 - 8/20/2014, 4:30 PM
guys don't know if you've seen the trailer but i don't think its gonna be a 12 or pg13.

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