First Love

Name: First Love
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Released: September 27, 2019
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Becky, Jun Murakami, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Sakurako Konishi

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Well Go USA Entertainment | Release Date: September 27, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Becky, Jun Murakami, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Sakurako Konishi, Sansei Shiomi, Seiyô Uchino, Shôta Sometani

Summary: A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.

Director: Takashi Miike

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 108 min

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Justin Chang

Sep 26, 2019

To watch it is to feel Miike’s industriousness and partake of his pleasure: The cinema is his first love and likely also his last. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Sep 24, 2019

First Love ranks among Miike’s most purely entertaining movies (out of more than 100 now!), gradually building steam until it reaches a sustained pitch of cheerful insanity. Read full review

Allan Hunter

May 18, 2019

An exhilarating cocktail of bloodbath violence and tar-black humour that will be catnip to Midnight Madness programmers and Miike devotees. Read full review

Anton Bitel

Apr 5, 2022

This is a high-energy caper with lots of larger-than-life characters circling to kill, and two innocents at its centre about whose fate and very survival, against all odds, we are made genuinely to care. Read full review

The Playlist Bradley Warren

May 23, 2019

While not quite arriving at the delirious cult highs of a classic like “Ichi the Killer,” “First Love” is Miike’s most accessible work in years. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Oct 2, 2019

First Love is neither a return to form for Miike nor is it a groundbreaking new leap into the unknown. The film rests instead in the mushy, bloody Miike middle – a pleasant diversion for the director’s faithful fans and an easy-ish entry for those eager to jump on the man’s over-the-top-is-not-good-enough wavelength. Your Miike mileage may vary – but rest assured, there’s no barf bag required. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Sep 10, 2019

This is pop-punk filmmaking – vibrant, disposable, and shallow. Still, it’s difficult to care about the nutritional content of your confectionary when it tastes this sweet. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Dec 5, 2021

This is a really gritty, bloody Japanese thriller comedy film. There are some amusing situations and moments but its more a thriller than a comedy overall and suffice to say, the comedy is indeed very black in nature (don't let the film name persuade you its a lovely dovey film - I don'tThis is a really gritty, bloody Japanese thriller comedy film. There are some amusing situations and moments but its more a thriller than a comedy overall and suffice to say, the comedy is indeed very black in nature (don't let the film name persuade you its a lovely dovey film - I don't think it's a spoiler to say that isn't entirely the case). The choreography of the fight scenes is quite good and the performances are decent. The storyline is a bit ludicrous but otherwise its really quite a gripping and tense watch. It is very darkly lit though, I suppose, which could perhaps cause frustration for people who may have issues seeing darkly shot films - that aside, I'd recommend this film, yes.… Expand

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Meth-dude

Feb 11, 2020

Supported by decent acting performances, a surprisingly good soundtrack, well made action sequences and an interesting story, "First Love" might not be Miike's finest film, but it's a very fun and entertaining one.

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The3AcademySins

Oct 10, 2019

First Love is really just True Romance: 2019. However, I think there are a lot of really fun action sequences, some beautiful and aesthetic cinematography, and a fun score. This is a great film for a night at the cinema.

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