First Love (Hatsukoi)
Synopsis
Taking place over one night in Tokyo, Leo, a down-on-his-luck young boxer meets his 'first love', Monica, a call girl and an addict but who is still an innocent. Monica unwittingly gets caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, Leo’s nemesis and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Midnight Madness
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Special Presentation
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020
Details
- Year
- 2019
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 108 min
- Director
- Takashi Miike
- Producer
- Muneyuki Kii, Jeremy Thomas, Misako Saka
- Editor
- Akira Kamiya
- Screenwriter
- Masaru Nakamura
- Director of Photography
- Nobuyasu Kita
- Sound
- Jun Nakamura
- Music
- Kôji Endô
- Principal Cast
- Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Shota Sometani, Sakurako Konishi, Becky, Jun Murakami
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 18th September 2019
