Synopsis
First Love (2019) is a crime comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Takashi Miike — the filmmaker who treats chaos as a genre of its own. Masataka Kubota plays Leo, a young boxer handed a terminal diagnosis on the worst possible day, and the night that follows takes him somewhere no boxing match could prepare him for.
He crosses paths with Monica, a woman tangled in drug debts owed to very dangerous people. By sunrise, they're dodging a corrupt cop with his own agenda, a yakuza lieutenant, and a hired assassin dispatched by a Chinese triad — all converging on one sleepless Tokyo night. Miike cuts between these storylines with the energy of someone who genuinely enjoys watching plans fall apart.
At 108 minutes, the film doesn't waste a frame on sentiment it hasn't earned. It's scrappy, bloody and surprisingly tender — which is exactly the kind of contradiction Miike has built a career on. Watch First Love online on iFILM.
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