Underplayed Gems

Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

Blood: The Last Vampire poster
Original title
BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE
Directed by
Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Genre
vampire film, horror anime and manga, action anime and manga, fantasy anime and manga, vampire anime and manga, Horror
Country
Japan
Runtime
48 min
Rated
R
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 378 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young girl named Saya hunts bat-like monsters called Chiropterans. Her handlers send her to an American airbase in Japan to kill the creatures hiding there.

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What happens

Blood: The Last Vampire (stylized in all caps) is a 2000 Japanese animated action horror film directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo and written by Kenji Kamiyama; the film is created by Production I.G, who also produced the film alongside their IG Plus division. Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a girl named Saya (Youki Kudoh), who hunts the hematophagous-bat-like creatures called Chiropterans, is tasked to eliminate the creatures at Yokota Air Base by her handlers. Blood: The Last Vampire first premiered at Fantasia International Film Festival on July 27, 2000, and later in Japan on November 18. Manga Entertainment licensed the film and released it theatrically in the United States in Summer 2001, and later on August 3 through home media release. Blood: The Last Vampire spawned a sequel manga, three light novels and a video game from 2001 to 2006. It also spawned two anime series: Blood+, which aired from 2005 to 2006, and Blood-C in 2011. A live-action film adaptation with the same title was released in 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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