#Sakurako Konishi

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First Love (2019)

Summary: Up-and-coming boxer Leo (Masataka Kubota) and call girl Yuri (Sakurako Konishi) get roped into a drug-smuggling scheme.

Energetic, comedic, bloody, and wildly entertaining, even if the romance between two leads isn't as convicing as intended.

Rating: 3.75/5

Photo credit: The Last Thing I See

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Medesi and 8BMHZ girls in their uniforms~

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Hatsukoi

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From prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) comes First Love, which is out today on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital via Well Go USA. Broke Horror Fan is celebrating the release with a giveaway.

One winner will receive First Love on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. To enter, email brokehorrorfan@gmail.com with FIRST LOVE in the subject line. In the body, put your name and mailing address. One entry permitted per mailing address. A winner will be randomly drawn next week.

The violent, genre-bending 2019 Japanese yakuza film stars Masataka Kubota, Noa Omori, Shota Sometani, Sakurako Konishi, Becky, Takahiro Miura, and Mami Fujioka.

When a duplicitous scheme by the low-level yakuza, Kase (Shota Sometani) goes hilariously wrong, a terminally ill boxer, Leo (Masataka Kubota), and a disturbed drug addicted call girl, Monica (Sakurako Konishi), find themselves innocently caught in the crosshairs of two warring gangs. Over the course of the increasingly ludicrous night, the two fall passionately in love, while the hail of bullets and blood fall quietly in the background.

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First Love

First Love    [trailer]

A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.

Another darkly funny instance in which a well-thought-out plan (well, sort of) goes continuously, horribly wrong.

It has quite a large cast of characters. But Miike is able to introduce them properly and it is easy to keep up with the various story strands. And the number gets incrementally ... smaller as the film progresses.

The ending feels a bit overly cheesy.

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First Love (Hatsukoi) (2019) Takashi Miike

March 17th 2020

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Takashi Miike directing his movie First Love.