Tag: Nao Ōmori

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  First Love (2019)

  February 11, 2022

  2010s, Action, Boxing Films, Crime, Drama, Japanese Cinema, Martial Arts, Noir, Romance, Thriller

  First Love (2019; Hatsukoi) combines a couple of my favourite sub-genres: One Wild Night and Multiple Parties Want One Thing. Directed by the prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Blade Of The Immortal), we follow a young boxer Leo (Masataka Kubota) who goes from shiftless to despondent when he receives some bad news after… Read.