# First Love (2006)

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**Original title**: *初恋*
**Runtime**: 114 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Yukinari Hanawa
**Written by**: Yukinari Hanawa, Harumi Ichikawa, Tetsuro Kamogawa
**Starring**: Aoi Miyazaki, Keisuke Koide, Masaru Miyazaki, Rena Komine, Tasuku Emoto, Munetaka Aoki

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You lurk outside a neon-lit jazz den in 1960s Tokyo where your brother trades nihilism for whiskey glasses. Then the bar’s backroom tilt shifts from haze to hunger. The neon isn’t just light; it’s the only color left in this world.

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