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Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
Director: Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Purportedly Japan's first fully digitally animated feature - although 'featurette' seems more accurate - this Team Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) effort is intermittently a marvel of computer generated and/or processed visuals. Much of the imagery has a spookily redolent industrial texture - witness the opening scenes of a desolate underground train line - yet much of it is flat and static. The story about a secret service hunt for shape-changing demons set on an American army base in Japan over Halloween 1966 is thick with cliché and po-faced exposition; and just when it's getting somewhere, the film ends.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Producer: Yukio Nagasaki
Cast: Youki Kudoh, Saemi Nakamura, Paul Carr, David Mallow, Joe Romersa, Rebecca Forstadt full cast
Duration: 45 mins
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