First Love

source: First Love

If you're a Miike fan you're gonna enjoy this one. If you're not a Miike fan, I'm sorry. The most enjoyable part of this movie is how unbelievably bad the bad guys are at being bad guys. Mix in a few severed limbs, a dirty cop, and a moment of "I don't know how to film this scene so let's just animate it" and you got yourself a popcorn munching good time.

This movie is so much fun. It's a romantic comedy action mob movie and it mixes these genres so well. It might be tame compared too Miike's typical fare but blood is spilled in buckets at the end of this movie in a crazy samarai sword fight. Highly recommended.

Quite a bit of activity, but a lot of hand wringing and wailing to go along with it. OK for dvd.