First Love

Description

Product Description

When a duplicitous scheme by the low-level yakuza, Kase (Shota Sometani) goes hilariously wrong, a terminally ill boxer, Leo (Masataka Kubota), and a disturbed drug addicted call girl, Monica (Sakurako Konishi), find themselves innocently caught in the crosshairs of two warring gangs. Over the course of the increasingly ludicrous night, the two fall passionately in love, while the hail of bullets and blood fall quietly in the background. From prolific auteur Takashi Miike, this noir-tinged, violent yakuza film, is Miike at his most fun and anarchic.

Language: Japanese (original), English (dub)
Subtitle: English

Review

“Violent, hilarious, and violently hilarious” –IndieWire

so relentlessly, outrageously entertaining –Screen International

First Love ranks among Miike s most purely entertaining movies –AV Club

About the Actor

Masataka Kubota is known for 13 Assassins (2010), The Ancient Dogoo Girl (2009), Tokyo Ghoul (2017), and The Last Cop: Episode 0 (2016).

About the Director

Takashi Miike is known for Ichi the Killer (2001), 13 Assassins (2010), Audition (1999), and Gozu (2003).