First Love

First Love (2000)

Romance

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.

Director: Tetsuo Shinohara

Casts

	Rena Tanaka as Satoka Aida
	Mieko Harada as Shizue Aida
	Hiroyuki Sanada as Shinichirô Fujiki
	Mitsuru Hirata as Yasuhito Aida
	Masaki Nishina as Akihito Tatara
	Makoto Satō as
	Hineki Mito as
	Eriko Mikamo as
	Yoji Tanaka as Prep School Teacher
	Airi Ando as
	Samy Pop as Man in Gym
	Sachiko Hara as
	Nori Horikoshi as Maki Iimori
	Baiken Jukkanji as
	Nao Kaneda as
	Daizen Kondo as
	Takeshi Mikami as
	Kumi Nakamura as
	Mari Nishino as
	Koji Sato as
	Akiko Takeuchi as Nurse
	Zeeko Uchiyama as Caller

Crew