 In the film, large portions of footage from the series, irrelevant to the overall narrative, are absent and long, new sequences were shot to replace them.Certain characters, such as Charlie's love interest in the series is entirely absent in the film, and other characters, such as Hikari's sister Susan, have greatly expanded roles in the film, while others that are far more relevant in the series, such as the "Mafia brothers" or Mimo the assassin, have their roles diminished to some extent in the film.A key difference of the film from the series is the presence in the latter of an additional main villain, who pulls the strings of the events of the story and to whom Hikari the japanese mobster is subordinate; he is entirely absent from the film in which Hikari is the sole main antagonist.