Watch: 初恋 2019 123movies, Full Movie Online – Leo is a young boxer, successful but unable to show emotion. He has a fight scheduled and is sure that he will win. Instead, his opponent knocks him out. This triggers a chain of unpleasant events involving drugs, corrupt cops, the Yakuza, a female assassin – and Monica, an escort that he must rescue. It’s one hell of a night for Leo..
Plot: A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
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Crazy Night
First Love goes back to Takashi Miike’s brutal V-Cinema Yakuza movies between the mid-nineties and the early years of the new millennium. It tells the story of a lonesome boxer who has just learned that he has an incurable brain tumor who meets a drug-addicted prostitute who suffers from hallucinations of her violent father. Over the course of one single night, the two desperate youngsters get caught up in a violent conflict between Chinese and Japanese organized crime clans as well as local police force. The prostitute is suspected of having killed a gang member and stolen a handbag full of drugs. The boxer knocks out a crooked police officer who planned on framing her and is now on the run as well. The relationship between the prostitute and the boxer slowly intensifies but their biggest challenge remains to survive the eventful night.This movie is a feast for Takashi Miike fans. The characters are diversified, eccentric and unique enough to keep your eyes glued to the screen. The flashy locations are gorgeous to watch. The action scenes are intense and especially the lengthy fight sequences in a warehouse mix gore elements with black slapstick humour in a typically Japanese way. The movie is also filled with tension and this thriller comes around with a few interesting twists and turns. The film also has some strong dramatic elements as it follows two lonesome outsiders who have suffered throughout their lives and are simply looking for peace of mind. The movie’s pace is overall frantic and entertaining. The idea to let the film take place over the course of only a few days with the most important events unfolding in one single night, makes First Love a quite dynamic, focused and intense experience.
The film still has a few minor flaws however. The opening quarter is a little bit dragging and slightly overstays its welcome. The story is somewhat predictable if you’re familiar with other Yakuza movies. The relationship between the two protagonists never really takes off as they don’t have much chemistry. The title First Love is slightly misguiding in that regard and something like Crazy Night would have been more appropriate.
Still, First Love is an entertaining Yakuza movie that goes back to the genre’s golden era in the mid-nineties. It features action, drama and thriller elements and is explicitly brutal, darkly humorous and gloomily nihilistic. Mainstream audiences might have trouble digesting this exciting potpourri but genre fans will get exactly what they like.
Takashi Miike is back with the most romantic fun movie
A boxer (Masataka Kubota) is in the same league as Ryan Gosling in Drive (2011) because he had to fight against bad guys to protect a girl but was much luckier. Because he has fought 20% while all the bad guys (Yakuza, Chinese gangsters and bad cops) killed each other!!!!What a blood soaked rom-com with the darkest comedy and satisfying action set. After many disappointing movies, this movie is Miike’s comeback.
Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 48 min (108 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated TV-MA
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime
Director Takashi Miike
Writer Masa Nakamura
Actors Becky, Bengal, Masayuki Deai
Country Japan, United Kingdom
Awards 11 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Sony CineAlta Venice, Cooke S4/i, Fujinon Alura and Premier Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format AXSM
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format), Sony RAW (4K) (source format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema, Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)