Baby Assassins

Chisato Sugimoto and Mahiro Fukagawa are high school students on the verge of graduating, and both work as highly skilled assassins for a secret organization. When their employers instruct them to move in together, the arrangement quickly strains their relationship, as Mahiro struggles with ordinary life and part-time work while Chisato adapts more easily. Their personal friction has to be set aside when the yakuza begin targeting them, forcing the two to cooperate in order to survive.

Baby Assassins is a Japanese action comedy directed and written by Yugo Sakamoto, produced by Tsuyoshi Gotô and released in 2021. It was the first feature Sakamoto directed, preceding A Janitor the same year, and it launched a series of sequels, Baby Assassins 2 in 2023 and Baby Assassins 3 in 2024. Akari Takaishi plays Chisato and Saori Izawa plays Mahiro, with Mone Akitani, Yasukaze Motomiya, Satoshi Uekiya and Nagiko Tsuji in supporting roles.

The film runs 95 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.4 from around 2,300 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 6.6 from roughly 98 votes. A critics' rating of 7.5 from 14 reviews places it somewhat above those audience scores.