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A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
Hatsukoi (original title)
(NR, 108 min.)
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This film is part of our In Translation series of recent international films of note.
A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. [Metacritic]
Starring: Becky, Jun Murakami, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Sakurako Konishi, Sansei Shiomi, Seiyô Uchino, Shôta Sometani
Director: Takashi Miike
Language: Japanese
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Crime
"Miike’s seemingly offhand inventiveness is evident in almost every shot and cut."
— Glenn Kenny, The New York Times
"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."
— Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
"The pacing is breakneck but the economy with which Miike establishes his various narrative threads and characters is astonishing."
— Rory O'Connor. The Film Stage
"If you haven’t sampled the works of Miike before now, here’s the perfect introduction. And yakuza action-comedy fans, you never forget your First Love."
— Roger Moore, Movie Nation
"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."
— David Ehrlich, IndieWire
"First Love ranks among Miike’s most purely entertaining movies (out of more than 100 now!), gradually building steam until it reaches a sustained pitch of cheerful insanity."
— Mike D'Angelo, The A.V. Club
"First Love is the kind of film that’s designed for seen-it-all genre fans who know these tropes (the scheming criminal, the dewy ingenues, the cold-hearted lady assassin, and so on) and appreciate seeing them tweaked in new directions, and treated with an air of fond familiarity rather than dour airlessness."
— Tasha Robinson, The Verge
