However, shaken by a job that doesn’t play out as planned, she decides she wants to start a new, less violent life.īut before she can seek that less bloody path, Kate is fatally poisoned and left with 24 hours to live.
Sure, she’s ruthless and overly efficient as a killer, but she is sensitive about her choice of beverage! In this scene, Kate’s the most vulnerable she’s ever been.Īt the film’s start, she brags about her perfect assassination record noting, "I haven’t missed once in 12 years”. Not that Kate takes so kindly to being made fun of. This is the start of Ani and Kate’s unexpected alliance, as Ani teases her for being a fan of Boom Boom Lemon’s nutritionally questionable flavours. It’s a multipurpose moment that not only repeats the “can’t find Boom Boom Lemon anywhere” gag, but also indicates the changing nature of her relationship with Ani (Miku Martineau), the niece of Kijima (Jun Kunimura), the criminal kingpin Kate is looking for. One scene that stuck out to me is when Kate looks for it in a vending machine in an alleyway, and it’s sold out. While carrying out her mission, Kate keeps asking for Boom Boom Lemon throughout Tokyo – from strangers and vendors – and comes up short. (I bet she really regretted wasting that bottle as a projectile so early on!) At the start of the film, protagonist Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) uses it as a weapon while trying to thwart some henchmen in Osaka, tossing the bottle away to distract one villain before she attacks.īut when Kate returns to Tokyo, she can’t find Boom Boom Lemon anywhere. In Kate, this bottle of suspiciously orange soda is a running gag. Right?! It would even come with its own in-built marketing campaign: “Boom Boom Lemon, the assassin’s drink of choice!”. Okay, the most important question first: where is the petition demanding that Big Soda make Boom Boom Lemon a reality? This is a quest I knew Lee Tran Lam would deeply relate to, as a Japanese snack and food enthusiast herself - particularly when it comes to, as I found out, potato chips.įor this week’s Scene & Heard, she chose a scene where a bruised and bloody Kate is more frustrated by a vending machine’s lack of Boom Boom Lemon than the poison killing her from the inside out. But throughout the film, Kate is fanging for a Boom Boom Lemon, a fictional fizzy drink that seems to be sold out wherever she goes (as you can see from its fictional ad campaign, it looks so damn drinkable). To be clear, I’m not insinuating Lee Tran is a ruthless killing machine - on that crucial part, they differ. Hello! I’m Jared Richards, editor of Netflix Pause, and when I first watched Kate - an assassin-revenge flick set in Japan starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the titular Kate, who has 24 hours to seek revenge after she’s lethally poisoned - I instantly thought of food writer Lee Tran Lam.
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