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Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special occurrence freeings. This review comes from the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
“This is fucking wild! ” a wounded yakuza member bellows to no one in particular, deep into the heart of Takashi Miike’s latest action-thriller, First Love. And he certainly isn’t wrong. The pipeline may speak like a self-congratulatory bit of meta-commentary, like Miike and screenwriter Masaru Nakamura praising themselves for the sheer extremity of the situation they’ve gotten their personas into. By the time he delivers the line, Miike and Nakamura have already crammed the film with warring Japanese gangs, a modern-day samurai, a ruthless assassin, an…
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