2019 · crime · yakuza · romance
First Love
Directed by Takashi Miike1h 48m2019
One night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer, meets his first love, Monica, an imprisoned sex worker. Caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, they find themselves pursued by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin.
Our read: First Love (2019) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive crime · yakuza · romance entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme crime / yakuza, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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“You want Miike's Tokyo romance—boxing, yakuza chaos, youthful love amid violence.”
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