Fumika (Akari Takaishi, Baby Assassins) is haunted by the ghost of killing machine Hideo (Masanori Mimoto), who wants her help in getting revenge on the people who killed him.

Simple concept, but incredible execution here.

It’s made by the Baby Assassins trilogy team of director Kensuke Sonomura and writer Yugo Sakamoto, working on a tight budget but delivering big action-packed martial arts and gunplay action.

When Fumika and Hideo join hands, he can take over her body, using her more frail form to do the murderous mayhem that he does so well. Kudo also learns from her that perhaps killing wasn’t all that life should have been about.

Sonomura has directed the action and created stunts for so many movies, like Bad City, the Resident Evil games, Deadball, Black Rat, The Machine Girl and so many more.

If this was the 2000s, this movie would be bought by Miramax and remade with inferior action. Today, we’re lucky to get to see it almost in the same time period as its home audience.