First Love

2019, dir Takashi Miike w/Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Shôta Sometani, Becky, Jun Murakami, Nao Ohmori, Seiyô Uchino, 108 min, DCP

The great Japanese genre director Takashi Miike turns in his tightest, funniest, and most energized film in years with this frenetic, one-crazy-night thriller. The paths of an up-and-coming boxer (Kubota), a call girl with a drug problem (Konishi), and a scheming yakuza punk (Sometani) collide over one fateful, neon-drenched night in Tokyo.