First Love | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)

First Love | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)

RELEASE DATE: February 11, 2020

Takashi Miike (Blade of the Immortal, As the Gods Will), one of today’s most prolific filmmakers, re-teams with Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas (13 Assassins, The Last Emperor) for the Japanese/UK collaboration First Love (read our review), which hits Blu-ray & DVD on February 11th, 2020.

Set over one night in Tokyo, the film will follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call girl and an addict but still an innocent. Little does Leo know, Monica is unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, and the two are pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin sent by the Chinese Triads. According to the production, all their fates intertwine in “spectacular Miike style, at his most and fun and anarchic” (via Deadline).

The film (read our review) stars Masataka Kubota (Tokyo Ghoul), Nao Omori (R100), Shota Sometani (Legend of the Demon Cat), Sakurako Konishi (Mio on the Shore), Becky (A Gambler’s Odyssey 2020), Jun Murakami (Cutie Honey), Sansei Shiomi (Outrage Coda) and Seiyo Uchino (Sanada Maru).

Also on board are some of Miike’s regular collaborators including writer Miyabi Nakamura (The Bird People in China), composer Koji Endo (13 Assassins) and cinematographer Nobuyasu Kita (Blade of the Immortal).

Pre-order First Love from Amazon.com today!