Baby Assassins (2021)

June 20, 2023 8:41 PM

Chisato and Mahilo are two high school girls who are about to graduate. They also happen to both be highly skilled assassins.

Transitioning to being adults and getting a cover job is more challenging than either anticipated. Starring Akari Takaishi and Saori Izawa. Starring Mone Akitani Written and directed by Yugo Sakamoto.

posted by miss-lapin (5 comments total)

Damn I should have proofread more carefully. What I get for posting when I am hot and tired.

This is kind of like if someone remade Ghost World as an low budget action comedy. There's not much plot, but it's still fun to watch because these characters, despite being sociopaths, are compelling as they try to find their way as young adults. Saori Izawa is a stunt woman who is also in John Wick 4 and her fight sequences are mesmerizing. Unsurprising Baby Assassins 2 is coming out this year and will hopefully arrive in the US quickly as I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.
posted by miss-lapin at 8:46 PM on June 20, 2023

The Ghost World comparison is apt. We quite liked this one, for the same reasons as you. It is indeed a funny teen girl coming of age story, just with slacker killers. I liked the subplot of the blonde girl realizing she's a sociopath, and is more curious about it than horrified... which I suppose would the logical reaction to that.
posted by mrphancy at 9:20 PM on June 20, 2023 [1 favorite]

It is enjoyable to me that I have followed miss-lapin's posts in FF long enough that when I see a movie that looks like something I might have posted myself but didn't, it is overwhelmingly likely she posted it.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:56 PM on June 21, 2023 [2 favorites]

Awww thank you kindly, DOT.
posted by miss-lapin at 6:40 PM on June 21, 2023 [1 favorite]

I saw a review on Letterbox complaining that the assassins weren't actually babies. Fair enough, but I'm just glad they weren't assassins who take out babies. That'd be a grim watch.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 11:12 PM on June 22, 2023