What’s black and red all over? A noir-tinged yakuza film by Japanese iconoclast Takashi Miike, of course.
With Miike, you never quite know what you’re going to get, both in terms of the movies’ unpredictable content and the wild range in quality.
The director’s recent highlights have been the result of a productive collaboration with celebrated British producer Jeremy Thomas: “13 Assassins,” “Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai” and “Blade of the Immortal.” It’s no surprise then that Miike’s latest Thomas production “First Love“—a selection of the Directors’ Fortnight program at Cannes—finds the filmmaker at his most engaged, playful and coherent.Continue reading ‘First Love’: Takashi Miike Delivers A Classic Shaggy Noir-Tinged Yakuza Film [Cannes Review] at The Playlist.
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