Roundhouse kicks are so romantic - Here’s the first “Love Fight” trailer

Posted by Kevin Ouellette at 4:23am on Sunday, August 31, 2008 EST

Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Future releases, Trailer Updates

Love Fight production stillMaybe I’m immature, but there’s just something about an unexpected punch in the face or kick to the head that’s undeniably amusing. The brand new Love Fight trailer has both, as you can see for yourself after the break.

The movie is based on a novel by Eri Makino called “Seibo Shojo”. Izuru Narushima (Midnight Eagle) directed and Takao Osawa (also Midnight Eagle) served the dual role of supporting actor and producer. The story involves a boy named Minoru (Kento Hayashi) who’s always been a bit of a weakling. Throughout his childhood his spunky female friend Aki (Kie Kitano) watched out for him and protected him from bullies. One day he meets Osawa’s character who trains him how to box. Then when he finally gets stronger than Aki she decides to take up boxing herself, which obviously drives him crazy. Predictably, the mutual boxing obsession brings up all sorts of strong new emotions between them.

Here's the trailer:

"Love Fight" opens in Japan on November 15th.

Links:
Official website
Tokyograph

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Tags: boxing, izuru narushima, kento hayashi, kie kitano, love fight, sachiko sakurai, takao osawa

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Avatar for logboy By logboy on Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:24am EST

the roundhouse joke begins to wear thin even in the length of this trailer… also, I’d like to
emphasize “midnight eagle” - remember that.

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Avatar for Kevin Ouellette By Kevin Ouellette (Derry, NH) on Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:43am EST

I haven’t seen it yet.. but i’ve never been much of an Osawa fan so I haven’t been interested in seeing it either.

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Avatar for Andrew Dasz By Andrew Dasz on Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:59pm EST

Nice movie…
Maybe I search in Europe.

Andrew Dasz

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