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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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