Project Detail

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
Composer: Kôji Endô
Principal cast: Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Shota Sometani, Sakurako Konishi, Becky, Jun Murakami

Genre

Action Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Japan, UK co-production

An Oriental Light and Magic (JP), Recorded Picture Company (UK), Toei Company (JP) production

Recorded Picture Company

8 Basing Street
London
W11 1ET

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Sales Company

HanWay Films

8 Basing Street
London
W11 1ET

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