Moon Child (2003)

Original title

ムーンチャイルド

Directed by

Takahisa Zeze

Genre

action film, drama film, vampire film, horror film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 59m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a future where Japan has collapsed economically, a group of Japanese outcasts hides in a fictional Asian city. One of them is a vampire, and the story follows their struggles and bonds over decades.

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What happens

Moon Child is a 2003 Japanese science fantasy horror action film starring Gackt, Hyde, and Leehom Wang. It was released on April 19 in Japan, and screened on May 13 at the Cannes Film Festival and on April 12, 2004, at Philadelphia Film Festival. In November 2023 for its 20th anniversary it was re-screened nationwide in Japan. The movie's story is adaptation of Gackt's original story related to his "Moon Saga" concept. Although the original story is about a vampire and his friends, it "reverses the concept of marginalised Asians living illegally in Japan to that of a group of marginalised Japanese renegades hiding out in a fictional futuristic city on the Asian mainland, named Maleppa, following Japan's economic collapse in the opening decades of the 21st Century". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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