First Love (2019)
2019 film directed by Takashi Miike
- Released
- 17 May 2019
- Country
- Japan, United Kingdom
- Language
- Japanese
- Genre
- Boxing film
- Director
- Takashi Miike
- Producer
- Jeremy Thomas
- Music
- Kōji Endō
- Starring
- Masataka Kubota, Nao Ōmori, Shōta Sometani
- Running time
- 108 minutes
- Set in
- Tokyo
First Love (Japanese: 初恋, Hepburn: Hatsukoi) is a 2019 crime thriller film directed by Takashi Miike. It tells the story of a boxer and a call girl who become unwittingly involved in a drug-smuggling scheme. The film premiered on 17 May 2019 in Directors' Fortnight, before being released in theatres in the United Kingdom and Japan in February 2020.
More films directed by Takashi Miike
- Bodyguard Kiba: Apocalypse of Carnage 1994
- Bodyguard Kiba: Apocalypse of Carnage 2 1995
- Izo 2004
- 13 Assassins 2010
- Ninja Kids!!! 2011
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q65249280 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.