First Love
Hacukoi
Directed by:
Takashi MiikeScreenplay:
Masa NakamuraCinematography:
北信康Composer:
Kōji EndōCast:
窪田正孝, Sakurako Konishi, 大森南朋, Shōta Sometani, Jun Murakami, ベッキー, 塩見三省, Masaaki Uchino, Chun-hao TuanVOD (2)
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The film is the prolific auteur, Takashi Miike, at his most fun and anarchic, a noir-tinged yakuza film blending genres in the story of a young boxer and a call girl, who fall passionately in love while getting innocently caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. (Well Go USA Entertainment)
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Takashi Miike is a roller coaster of a director. He makes one solid film and then follows it up with five terrible ones, with First Love being kind of a happy medium. Quite decent visuals for Miike, surprisingly without any awkward or weird scenes, but the film doesn't have much to surprise either. The action is relatively sparse and not too gripping, and plot-wise it could definitely have been more engaging too. Average. Story***, Action***, Humour**, Violence***, Entertainment***, Music***, Visuals***, Atmosphere***, Suspense*. 5/10.
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The yakuza versus the Chinese versus whoever. And a young, unsuccessful boxer, who is accidentally drawn into the scheme and is protecting a drug-addled yet important teenage prostitute against
everything and everyone. The boxer’s storyline showing his transformation into a warrior is pleasant,
but First Love pays more attention to the clan war, which is more grotesque than riveting, and its
Miike-esque indie visuals do not add much. [Cannes]
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