First Love is a 2019 British-Japanese drama film directed by Takashi Miike. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

It is a story about Leo, a young boxer, who meets Monica, a call girl and an addict who becomes involved in a drug-smuggling scheme. Over a night in Tokyo, the two are pursued by a corrupt cop, a yakuza and a female assassin sent by the Chinese triads.

““First Love” is hilarious. There are roughly 45 minutes in the middle of this film when Miike shifts to a higher gear and the whole thing just starts cooking with gas. Miike is moving too fast to be much of a stylist, but his infamously violent sense of humor …and his clear sense of staging is more than enough to keep the fires going, as Leo and Monica find themselves plunging deeper and deeper into a mess they have nothing to do with.”: Indiewire.com

• dir: Takashi Miike

• Year: 2019

• country: Japan, UK

• run-time: 108 mins

• rating: 12

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