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Movie Review – First Love (2019)

February 14, 2020 by Robert Kojder

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. One of the upsides of directing […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: becky, first love, Jun Murakami, Masaaki Uchino, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Sakurako Konishi, Sansei Shiomi, Shota Sometani, Takashi Miike, Takehiro Miura

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – First Love

October 11, 2019 by Shaun Munro

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 […]

Filed Under: London Film Festival, Movies, Reviews, Shaun Munro Tagged With: 2019 BFI London Film Festival, becky, first love, Jun Murakami, Masaaki Uchino, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Sakurako Konishi, Sansei Shiomi, Shota Sometani, Takashi Miike, Takehiro Miura

Takashi Miike’s First Love gets a teaser trailer

July 23, 2019 by Amie Cranswick

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 […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: first love, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Sakurako Konishi, Shota Sometani, Takashi Miike

Jared Leto joins the yakuza in The Outsider trailer

February 22, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

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; […]

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