First Love. 2019Directed by Takashi Miike Starring Becky, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Masaaki Uchino, Shota Sometani, Takehiro Miura, Sakurako Konishi, Jun Murakami, and Sansei ShiomiSYNOPSIS::A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.One of the upsides of directing over 100 films to […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – First Love
First Love, 2019.Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Becky, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Masaaki Uchino, Shota Sometani, Takehiro Miura, Sakurako Konishi, Jun Murakami, and Sansei Shiomi.SYNOPSIS:A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.The latest film from the industrious Takashi Miike – “only” […]
Takashi Miike’s First Love gets a teaser trailer
Ahead of its release this September, Well Go USA Entertainment has debuted a trailer for cult favourite Takashi Miike’s upcoming crime drama First Love which stars Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Shota Sometani, and Sakurako Konishi; watch it here…The film is the prolific auteur, Takashi Miike, at his most fun and anarchic, a noir-tinged yakuza film […]
Jared Leto joins the yakuza in The Outsider trailer
With just two weeks to go until The Outsider arrives on Netflix, the streaming service has released a new trailer and poster for the Jared Leto-headlined crime drama. Directed by Martin Zandvliet, the film features a cast that also includes Tadanobu Asano, Kippei Shiina, Shioli Kutsuna, Emile Hirsch, Raymond Nicholson, Rory Cochrane, Nao Omori, and Min Tanaka; […]
