First Love

Genre: Crime, Drama

Runtime: 108 mins

Rated: TV-MA

Release Date: 2019

Countries: Japan

Languages: Japanese

DIRECTED BY:

Takashi Miike

WRITTEN BY:

Masa Nakamura

CAST INCLUDES:

Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Shota Sometani, Sakurako Konishi

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

FIRST LOVE is an action-packed yakuza film from acclaimed Japanese director Takashi Miike, starring Masataka Kubota, Nao Omiri, Shota Sometani and Sakurako Konishi. Rated an impeccable 97% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is the prolific auteur at his most fun and anarchic, a noir-tinged yakuza film blending genres in the story of a young boxer and imprisoned call girl who fall passionately in love after getting innocently caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. ""It's a joyous piece of filmmaking, a demented, multitasking little scherzo from a director who cranks out four new features a year on average and who never seems more relaxed than when he's in an absolute frenzy" (Los Angeles Times).

SYNOPSIS

One night in Tokyo, a self-confident young boxer and a prostitute get caught up in a drug-smuggling plot involving organized crime, corrupt cops and a female assassin.

First Love

Genre: Crime, Drama

Runtime: 108 mins

Rated: TV-MA

Release Date: 2019

Countries: Japan

Languages: Japanese

DIRECTED BY

Takashi Miike

WRITTEN BY

Masa Nakamura

CAST INCLUDES

Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Shota Sometani, Sakurako Konishi

ANGELIKA’S NOTE
SYNOPSIS

One night in Tokyo, a self-confident young boxer and a prostitute get caught up in a drug-smuggling plot involving organized crime, corrupt cops and a female assassin.

"It's a joyous piece of filmmaking, a demented, multitasking little scherzo from a director who cranks out four new features a year on average and who never seems more relaxed than when he's in an absolute frenzy."

Los Angeles Times

"Miike's seemingly offhand inventiveness is evident in almost every shot and cut."

New York Times

"The Tarantino-style roller-coaster ride is as effortlessly enjoyable as ever, accentuating the director's lighter comic leanings over his bloodthirsty side."

Hollywood Reporter