FIRST LOVE

HATSUKOI

By Takashi MIIKE

HAUT ET COURT DISTRIBUTION - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

Action/Adventure - Completed 2019

A long awaited Miike’s new project is set in Shinjuku Kabukicho, where variety of people gather hungry to fulfill their desire. This extraordinary project is the mixture of violent action, which is Miike’s origin as a director, and romance by a lonely pair of man and women. Triple A stars gathered!

Festivals
& Awards

Busan IFF 2019
Midnight Passion
Sydney Underground Film Festival 2019
Cannes Director's Fortnight 2019
Neuchatel Fantastic Film Festival 2019
Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
L'Etrange Film Festival 2019
Fantasy Film Fest 2019
Toronto - TIFF 2019
Midnight Madness
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Action/Adventure
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 107 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Takashi MIIKE
    • Writer(s)
    • Masaru NAKAMURA
    • Producer(s)
    • Muneyuki KII (TOEI COMPANY, LTD.), Jeremy THOMAS (Recorded Pictures Company), Misako SAKA (OLM, Inc.)
    • Synopsis
    •  Set over one night in Tokyo, we follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a callgirl and an addict but still an innocent.
      Little does Leo know, Monica is unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme,
       And the two are pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads.
       All their fates intertwine in spectacular Miike style, at his most fun and anarchic.