FIRST LOVE

HATSUKOI

By Takashi MIIKE

CHANNEL FOUR TELEVISION - as BROAD

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
Int'l Film Fest. Of india, Goa 2019
Singapore International Film Festival 2019
International Film Festival and Awards・Macao 2019
Cannes Director's Fortnight 2019
Melbourne International Film Festival 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.