First Love

A young boxer named Leo Katsuragi meets a woman called Monica one night in Tokyo and falls for her. Monica, who works as a call girl, has been drawn into a drug-smuggling operation without understanding what she is involved in. Before the night is over, the two are on the run from a group of pursuers that includes a corrupt police officer, a yakuza, his rival and an assassin sent by a Chinese triad.

Takashi Miike directed the film, working from a screenplay by Masaru Nakamura. It is the thirty-third of the forty-two features he has directed in chronological order, following Laplace's Witch and preceding Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~. Masataka Kubota plays Leo, with Sakurako Konishi as Monica, and Nao Omori, Shota Sometani, Becky and Takahiro Miura in supporting roles. Jeremy Thomas, Misako Saka and Muneyuki Kii produced the film, a British and Japanese co-production involving Asmik Ace, KDDI, The Asahi Shimbun and OLM.

On IMDb, the film's audience rating stands at 6.7 out of 10 from 344 votes. A critics' rating of 7.5 out of 10 from 122 reviews puts it somewhat higher than the audience score. Running 108 minutes and mixing action with comedy and crime, it appeared in 2019.