Blood - The Last Vampire (2009)
- written December 17th, 2010
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Summary: In 1970, a 400 year-old samurai, Saya, is sent to the Kanto High School at an American military base in Tokyo, by the Council - a secret society that has been hunting vampires for centuries. Saya has the appearance of a teenager but is the tormented half-breed creature with the soul of her human father and the powers of her vampire mother. She is obsessed to face the powerful demon Onigen that killed her father.
Overall- Background : This film’s idea started as Blood: The Last ampire (2000), a Japanese anime movie scripted by Kenji Kamiyama and Katsuya Terada. It led to a manga, Blood: The Last Vampire (2001), written by Benkyo Tamaoki. It also gave rise to Blood+, a 50 episode anime series. Overall: I will readily admit, I’m not much of a manga fan so if you are coming across this film, you need to figure out if you prefer manga or the live-action. Many die-hard fans seem to think this film isn’t very good or isn’t very true to the history of the plot. For the film itself, it has a lot of good action and good cinematography butt the CGIO effects are a little too obvious and annoying. For every good action scene, the blood trails ruin it. It’s a decent film but it’s not so much vampires, as much as it’s “Buffy.” As for the various versions of this film, here’s an explanation with 2 links listed below: Again, one has to differentiate between three main version. First of all there's the well-known International Version released in Europe or in the States. Then there's a so-called Korean Version that runs shorter than the International Version, due to a longer scene that was left out, and this version features also some alternate shots and other differences in comparison to the International Version. A detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here. Comparison: Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets RIngu |
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