FIRST LOVE
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.
international title: | First Love |
original title: | Hatsukoi |
country: | Japan, United Kingdom |
sales agent: | HanWay Films |
year: | 2019 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Takashi Miike |
film run: | 108' |
screenplay: | Masara Makamura |
cinematography by: | Nobuyasu Kita |
film editing: | Akira Kamiya |
art director: | Takeshi Shimizu |
music: | Kôji Endô |
producer: | Muneyuki Kii, Misako Saka, Jeremy Thomas |
production: | Recorded Picture Company |