Review: A boxer takes on the mob in Takashi Miike's joyous thriller-romance 'First Love'
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Sep 27, 2019
3 minutes
The madly prolific and often just plain mad Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike has a knack for the deeply disturbing image: the inanimate object that suddenly leaps to life, the lower extremity that's been severed with piano wire, the soup ladle protruding from where no soup ladle should protrude.
His latest movie, the nimble and sweetly disarming "First Love," finds him in a comparatively mellow mood. The scariest thing we see in it - a bespectacled,
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