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Source: NYAFF press release Official Site: hatsukoi-movie.jp (Japan), firstlovemovie.com (US) Hang with NYAFF next Tuesday, September 17th at 7pm to catch FIRST LOVE (??, Hatsukoi) at the Angelika Film Center where the man himself, director Takashi Miike, will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A! Purchase tickets at angelikafilmcenter.com/nyc.

Synopsis

The film is the prolific auteur, Takashi Miike, at his most fun and anarchic, a noir-tinged yakuza film blending genres in the story of a young boxer and a call girl, who fall passionately in love while getting innocently caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. FIRST LOVE will be released in select theaters by Well Go USA Entertainment on September 27th.