Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-hen (2016)

Original title

傷物語〈Ⅱ熱血篇〉

Directed by

Tatsuya Oishi, Akiyuki Shinbo

Genre

horror film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 08m

Rated

R

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 227 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A high school boy is turned into a vampire after helping a wounded woman. He must hunt other vampires to reclaim his humanity.

visually lushdarkly comicgorysurrealmoodyfast-pacednoirishunsettlingcerebral

What happens

Kizumonogatari (Japanese: 傷物語; "Wound Story") is a Japanese anime film trilogy directed by Akiyuki Shinbo and Tatsuya Oishi and produced by Shaft. Together, the films are an adaptation of the 2008 light novel of the same name, which is the second entry in the Monogatari series written by Nisio Isin and a prequel to the first, Bakemonogatari. The first film, Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu (傷物語I 鉄血篇, Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen; "Iron-Blooded"), was released in Japanese theaters in January 2016. The second film, Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu (傷物語II 熱血篇, Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-hen; "Hot-Blooded"), was released in August 2016, and the third and final film, Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu (傷物語III 冷血篇, Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-hen; "Cold-Blooded"), was released in January 2017. A compilation film, Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp (傷物語 こよみヴァンプ), was released in January 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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