Kate (film)

Kate
A young girl pointing her fingers like a gun, and bruised and battered a woman holding up a gun with a silencer, and a serious looking bald man. At the bottom of the poster is the rear spoilers of a sports car.
Promotional release poster
Directed byCedric Nicolas-Troyan
Written byUmair Aleem
Produced by
  • Kelly McCormick
  • Bryan Unkeless
  • Patrick Newall
Starring
CinematographyLyle Vincent
Edited by
  • Sandra Montiel
  • Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir
Music byNathan Barr
Production
companies
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • September 10, 2021 (2021-09-10)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • Japanese
Budget$25 million

Kate is a 2021 American action thriller film directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan and written by Umair Aleem. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelson, Tadanobu Asano, Michiel Huisman, Miyavi, and Jun Kunimura. The film follows Kate (Winstead), an assassin, whose mentor and handler (Harrelson) assigns her to kill a high-ranking yakuza boss. During Kate's final mission, she finds out that she has been poisoned and has at most a day to live, so she uses her last hours to get revenge and find out who set her up.

The film was released on September 10, 2021, by Netflix and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Winstead's performance but found the film "disappointingly derivative of numerous other female assassin films".