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- 2019
- TV-MA
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- 2019
- TV-MA
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 1 h 48 m
Summary A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
Directed By: Takashi Miike
Written By: Masa Nakamura
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 1 h 48 m
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Well Go USA Entertainment
- 1 h 48 m
First Love
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7.3
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Summary A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
Directed By: Takashi Miike
Written By: Masa Nakamura
Where to Watch
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Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
77
96% Positive
24 Reviews
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4% Mixed
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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.
Frequently sublime ... a piece of work so feral and full of life that you’d never guess it was (at least) the 90th feature its director has made in the last 30 years.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 21 User Ratings
7.3
76% Positive
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Eye-popping is one way to describe the prolific Japanese director’s 103rd film, a cheerfully pulpy Tokyo-set noir.
An exhilarating cocktail of bloodbath violence and tar-black humour that will be catnip to Midnight Madness programmers and Miike devotees.
First Love reveals itself to be an elegant and haunting Takashi Miike film in throwaway clothing.
It offers little thematically or stylistically novel that devotees of Japan’s most prolific B-movie maestro will not have seen many times before. Even so, the Tarantino-style rollercoaster ride is as effortlessly enjoyable as ever, accentuating the director's lighter comic leanings over his bloodthirsty side.
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.
Production Company
Akatsuki,
HanWay Films,
Oriental Light and Magic (OLM),
Recorded Picture Company (RPC),
Toei Company
Release Date Sep 27, 2019
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating TV-MA
Awards
Asian Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
