FIRST LOVE

HATSUKOI

By Takashi MIIKE

BARTON FILMS, S.L. - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, SPAIN

Action/Adventure - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Busan IFF 2019
Midnight Passion
San Sebastian 2019
Zabaltegi Tabakalera
Cannes Director's Fortnight 2019
Toronto - TIFF 2019
Midnight Madness
Fantastic Fest 2019
Sitges FF 2019
Athens International Film Festival 2019
BFI London FF 2019
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Action/Adventure, Romance, Thriller
    • Countries
    • JAPAN, UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 107 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Takashi MIIKE
    • Writer(s)
    • Masaru NAKAMURA
    • Producer(s)
    • Jeremy THOMAS (Recorded Pictures Company), Misako SAKA (OLM, Inc.)
    • Synopsis
    • Leo, a down-on-his-luck young boxer who meets his first love, Monica, a call girl and an addict but 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.