(Why, for instance, do some moviegoers sometimes find themselves half - admiring movie killers like Jef Costello,
the lonely contract killer with the sharply honed senses in Jean - Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (1967); or Jules and Vincent, the two talkative hit men in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994)?
The pitch: Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi headlines an oddball love story as a
lonely young woman who works by day as a
contract killer and by night in a Tokyo fish market.