My Cultural Diet

Based on its trailers, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Baby Assassins was wall-to-wall action as its young anti-heroines take on the Yakuza with guns and fists aplenty. The film does feature some impressive action sequences, especially one towards the end featuring Saori Izawa that holds up against anything in the John Wick movies. However, those sequences are few and far between. Baby Assassins is primarily a very dark and very offbeat comedy about a pair of young sociopaths trying to fit into society with mixed (and bloody) results, and thus, your mileage will definitely vary. You’re obviously meant to cheer them on, especially Izawa’s Mahiro, but their characterizations are so thin that they’re annoying more often than not. The film’s efforts to portray them as autistic might’ve been another effort to humanize them, but in the end, I was just left puzzled and asking more questions about what writer/director Yugo Sakamoto really intended to achieve here.

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