Entertainment that pleases as an action film, even if the plot uses the stereotypical romance based on its short story. It's violent, brutal, with well-orchestrated fights and a plot with accusations between the lines. We have a fable that uses comical attempts (with small successes) to provide a certain relief in its aggressiveness and that works well with the cliché of first love, in the last yakuza.

"First Love" a brilliant & dark humoured love story from Takashi Miike & if you're familiar with his work, it's made in the manner you would expect, with blood, gore & severed heads, as two young down on their luck people accidentally come together & get tangled up with courrpt cops, stolen drugs & gang warfare.

Absolutely insane, weird, dark, gory and fast-paced. Loved it.

It's a great movie with my favourite actress.

I got a real kick out of this one.

Miike in the style of a Tarantino crime film and it goes hard!

This is a really gritty, bloody Japanese thriller comedy film. There are some amusing situations and moments but its more a thriller than a comedy overall and suffice to say, the comedy is indeed very black in nature (don't let the film name persuade you its a lovely dovey film - I don't think it's a spoiler to say that isn't entirely the case). The choreography of the fight scenes is quite good and the performances are decent. The storyline is a bit ludicrous but otherwise its really quite a gripping and tense watch. It is very darkly lit though, I suppose, which could perhaps cause frustration for people who may have issues seeing darkly shot films - that aside, I'd recommend this film, yes.

A "yakuza film" with a love-story twist (and some Chinese gangsters), First Love is an entertaining, if not at times confusing, Tokyo-set crime thriller. The car chase scene is one of the better ones I've seen in a while — highlighted when Kase (Shota Sometani), my favorite character, is literally rubbing cocaine into his gunshot wound. Some of the set-up struggled to keep my attention, but the pressure cooker culmination of the lit fuses in the warehouse was a pretty good pay-off — don't worry, we get a sword fight (1/2 of which is a katana). At first, I found the ending to be strange, but ended up liking it. I found the special effects jarring, as they came out of nowhere, and probably would've suited the movie better had they been sprinkled a little more throughout the runtime. If you can keep the interlaced storylines organized, First Love is a solid (75) of a film I think you'll enjoy.

Exhilarating from start to finish! Miike comes through once again with another gritty yakuza-adjacent love story.

As usual for Takashi Miike (The Bird People in China, Gozu) it's violent, darkly funny and a lot of fun

The pacing of the movie, the acting, the cast, the storyline are awesome! Strongly recommended to Action packed lovers and also anime fans, yeah Trust me there, while watching it you'll think of my review. Enjoy!

Straightforward Yakuza yarn with some nice twists by Miike. interesting characters and some funny and original moments. Fans of Takashi Miike or the genre will enjoy it enough.

Pretty good entertaining movie. I've been pushing this movie off for 2 years now and the wait is over and man I'm glad I didn't want ten years to watch this movie because I would've been disappointed.

There are plenty of layers to 'First Love', a Takashi Miike film that is bonkers. While there are a couple mysterious choices this is a crime drama that has all the elements. It starts slowly and let me give you some advice since I haven't said this in a while: 'Don't watch the trailer!' I heard from people that the trailer includes a lot of scenes from the third act, which is why I never watch trailers. Miike is able to film scenes that are ordinary and make them extraordinary. This is a fantastic feature that isn't for the faint of heart but it's a genre-bending thriller that is terrific. Final Score: 8.3/10

The production is fine. It has that polished "look" despite a few camera angles that weren't ideal. But whatever, my real issue with this is just how mainstream and tame it is. It's a morally-correct, damsel-in-distress movie with a few "teehee" moments and maybe slightly higher violence than some other action movies. I didn't care about the characters. I didn't care about the plot. I didn't care about the ending. If you had a stressful day at work and want to ease your mind with a wholesome, modern story of justice and the occasional decapitation then maybe this is your movie. If you want something weird, stylish, controversial, thought-provoking, challenging, or interesting at all, then I can't recommend this.

I really love this movie filled with entertainment from start to end every frame is beautiful even you don't the language you will enjoy it

Pretty good entertaining movie. I’ve been pushing this movie off for 2 years now and the wait is over and man I’m glad I didn’t want ten years to watch this movie because I would’ve been disappointed.

I guess I do have a favorite director

Don't know what the hype is all about. No pretense of a real story, just everyone killing everyone else.

Amazing movie, action, love, comedy all in one and the actors were awesome especially Shota Sometani