First Love
Directed by Tetsuo Shinohara2000 1h 53mRomance
7.26.9
This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a malignant stomach ulcer, Sataka is left alone with her emotionally repressed father; whiling away the hours one day, she comes across a love letter written to her mother 24 years earlier. Deciding to track down the letter's author, Sataka eventually finds Shinichiro (Hiroyuki Sanada), an overweight slob who was abandoned by his wife years earlier and now spends his time hanging around pachinko parlors. Determined to clean him up and reintroduce him to her mother, Sataka nags Shinchiro until he finally agrees to her demands, and a gradual friendship develops between the two as Sataka drags him to the gym and a clothing store. But once Shinchiro's makeover is complete, he turns the tables on his young friend, and when the time comes for him to meet Sataka's mother, all concerned parties find themselves embarking on a new phase in their lives.
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First Love was released on April 1, 2000.
First Love was directed by Tetsuo Shinohara.
First Love has a runtime of 1h 53m.
First Love was produced by Kazuya Hamana, Kazumi Kawashiro, Shohei Kotaki.
The key characters in First Love are Satoka Aida (Rena Tanaka), Shizue Aida (Mieko Harada), Shinichirô Fujiki (Hiroyuki Sanada).
First Love is a Romance film.
First Love has an audience rating of 7.2 out of 10.