This is a random kind for me. I trusted it to be good for the fact that Samuel L. Jackson is on it.

The story follows a girl named Sawa (played by India Eisley) that swore to avenge her parents’ death and started to one by one assassinate members of a meat trading organization (aka human trafficking). Sawa is being protected by a police officer named Karl Aker (played by Samuel L. Jackson).

The flow is of the story is quite dark. And I don’t know if I was simply corrupted but I always feel that someone might get raped in this movie but maybe it’s because of main crime featured. And just to tell you now nothing like so happened and no brutal violence against women either, which is quite refreshing. I mean some movies have to put that in a scene when they can simply make the audience feel that or just lead them to the idea.

Just to share, when the end credits rolled out, it stated that the movie is based on a story written by Yasuomi Umetsu. I had a feeling the it's based on an anime. i searched and found the anime version of Sawa and thought 'wait, that's hentai...' and after a few seconds i asked myself 'why the hell do i know that!’

I looked around and saw that Sawa (in anime) had a cameo appearance in another Yasuomi Umetsu story called Mezzo Forte. And I have to admit I have seen the second half of Mezzo Forte just once. I really don’t remember Sawa in it but the animation style is very similar. I am actually in search for all works of Yasuomi Umetsu. I know there are hentai tendencies but sometimes, much like Kite, you can remove the hentai parts and the story would still run on its own.

originally posted: December 9, 2014