ASSAULT GIRL and the teaser for ASSAULT GIRLS, the full-length movie.

2 Comments | Posted: September 28th, 2009 | Filed under: Video

Via William Gibson, the first Assault Girl short, and the trailer for the upcoming full-length Assault Girls film,both by acclaimed anime director Mamoru Oshii.


The first Assault Girl was made for Shin-Onna Tachiguishi Retsuden, a film anthology whose title translates to “The Women of Fast Food.” There is an Assault Girl 2, which appeared in another anthology entitled Kiru ~ KILL. At The Sky Crawlers’, but I can’t find it online anywhere. Assault Girls will be in Japanese theaters this December:

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2 Comments on “ASSAULT GIRL and the teaser for ASSAULT GIRLS, the full-length movie.”

  1. 1 Doug Hudson said at 7:10 pm on September 28th, 2009:

    I love the Japanese. Who else would take the premise “The Women of Fast Food” and make…this? Thanks for pointing it out, I’ll have to see if I can find a copy of the movie when it comes out.

  2. 2 Made in DNA said at 10:00 pm on September 29th, 2009:

    The brilliance of ASSAULT GIRL was marred by the snore-inducing drivel that was ASSAULT GIRL 2.

    In AG2, the Assassin Michael lays silently in an endless field of tall grasses. It rains. The rain lifts. She stands and begins to make her way through the grasses seemingly without purpose. She stops, pulls a sword and through the swipe of it, reveals a World War I tank that kicks to life and tries to run her down. She defeats it easily with a second swipe of her sword. It derezzes and revealed behind it is Female Prisoner Lucifer. The two battle (Michael using her sword, Lucifer using nothing but body blocks) neither getting the upper hand. Lucifer eventually spreads her wings and takes off. Michael watches her go and then spreads her own wings. End of story.

    AG2 is approximately 15 minutes long, has no dialogue and is hedged by a lulling soundtrack. The first 10 minutes of the film is Michael laying in the grass looking up at the sky and sheltering herself (rather ineffectively) from the rain with a shawl. There isn’t much that could have saved this short from drooldom, but cutting the first 10 minutes would have helped. Mr Oshii quotes The Book of Mark at the beginning and the Book of Enoch (66:6 — though I’m not sure if the Japanese and English versions of the Bible are the same in this regard as when I researched the English version of Enoch 66:6, the references didn’t match up) at the end.

    Fortunately I don’t believe AG and AG2 are connected in any way (hopefully) other than name. Mr Oshii’s ASSAULT GIRLS however will be a full-length movie based on ASSAULT GIRL. And you can thank Buddha’s ever blue balls for that because if it were based on AG2, not a soul on this planet would be able to sit through it.