Check Out The Killer Second Trailer For KIRI: PROFESSIONAL ASSASSIN!

It won't be long before director Sakamoto Koichi heads back to the big screen with just a few weeks to go until the release of his latest live-action manga treatment, Kiri: Professional Assassin. Actress Shaku Yumiko makes her comeback in her first action role in well over a decade, which makes it even more welcoming for those who remember her role in Sato Shinsuke's The Princess Blade, especially with the first trailer of her new film already servicing with much approval.

This week, a second trailer has arrived with an extra bit of focus on actor Kubota Yuki and actress Ayane among the antagonists at hand as we get a further glimpse into the vengeful plot that unfolds, and it's safe to say that things are about to get quite brutal...and bloody... in the process. Manga author Nishikawa Hideaki's work here proves positive toward providing a perfect playing field for Sakamoto's vision of action cinema with much lip-service in favor of strong female lead characters in many of his projects as of late, making Shaku's return to the genre even much more opportune.

SYNOPSIS:

‘Killers’ is an illegal website for contract murders that conducts reverse auctions. In these auctions it is the lowest bidder who wins the murder contract. However, the contracted killers must follow a strict set of rules that have been decided upon by the website. Secretly keeping tabs on these killers-for-hire is Kiri, a woman raised from youth to be an assassin. Kiri monitors the website in the hope that she will locate an assassin whom she seeks revenge on.   

One day, a contract is offered on the website. However, the killer who wins the bid violates the rules by slaughtering people not targeted in the contract. Worse, the bodies he leaves behind have had their eyes viciously gouged out, which is exactly the kind of modus operandi Kiri has been on the lookout for. Could this be the killer she has been pursuing?

Legendary martial arts action cinema thesp Kurata Yasuaki also stars with Misaki Ayame, Arai Atsushi, Komiya Arisa and Onishi Yuka from a script by The Tiger Mask scribes Ito Hidehiro and Era Itaru. Tickets are also being made available in Japan with links in the description before it hits cinemas starting on June 20 from TOEI VIDEO/Excellent Films.

Watch the new trailer below, and for Nikkatsu's English version of the first trailer, click here.