First Love, le dernier yakuza - Reviews

...gradually building steam until it reaches a sustained pitch of cheerful insanity.

...far more impressive for how it collides its many characters than what it ever feels for them.

...combines a slapstick yakuza crime story with young romance. And I love it.

Eye-popping is one way to describe the prolific Japanese director’s 103rd film, a cheerfully pulpy Tokyo-set noir.

This hard-boiled piece of pulp fiction thaws into a hysterically violent absurdist comedy about the implosion of the Japanese underworld.

Brilliantly bizarre, ultra-violent yakuza caper.

...everyone is at war here. The yakuza, the triads and the police go at it incessantly. Buckle up.

Det er en sjælden, ekstatisk fornøjelse at opleve en exploitation-filmskaber i storform.

A double-crossing, criss-crossing caper, fatalistic and fun.

A bananas 103rd outing for the master of cinematic whiplash.

Miike’s latest is an outrageous romp that manages to find new and exciting ways to depict extreme violence...