First Love

First Love, Hatsu-koi

Genre: Crime, Romance.
Date: 2006
Parts: 2
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English

Synopsis: 1960s Japan, and Misuzu, a high school student with a chaotic home life, finds a sanctuary with her brother Ryo and his friends – a group of nihilistic teenagers who spend their days hanging around bars and indulging in drugs and casual sex. But one of the youths – the ambitious, charismatic Kishi – wants more, and devises a plan to rob a bank van, and the group begin rehearsing the heist. Based on an allegedly autobiographical novel by Japanese writer Misuzu Nakahara this powerful widescreen saga is the finest Japanese drama of the year: a stunningly visualised elegy of life, and love, on the edge. Aoi Miyazaki …. Misuzu Keisuke Koide …. Kishi Masaru Miyazaki …. Ryo Rena Komine …. Yuka Tasuku Emoto …. Takeshi Munetaka Aoki …. Tetsu YĆ»ya Matsuura Shunji Fujimura …. Motorcycle seller Tadahiro Aoki …. Tetsu Haruko Wanibuchi

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