FIRST LOVE **** Japan / UK 2019 Dir: Takashi Miike. 108 mins Written by regular collaborator Masa Nakamura and modelled partially on Tarantino’s TRUE ROMANCE script, Takashi Miike’s fourth co-production with the UK’s Recorded Picture Company is an engaging genre-blender fond of shifting between gruesome slapstick comedy (a blinking severed…
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Blood, gore, severed heads and a tender love story at its heart. Visionary director Takashi Miike (AUDITION, 13 ASSASSINS, ICHI THE KILLER) returns to the big screen with the wildly entertaining Tarantino-esque crime thriller FIRST LOVE. Synopsis: A boxer with a brain tumour, a crooked cop with terrible luck,…