Blood: The Last Vampire (2009 film)
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| Directed by | Chris Nahon |
| Produced by | Ronny Yu |
| Written by | Chris Chow |
| Starring |
Jun Ji-hyun Allison Miller Masiela Lusha JJ Feild Koyuki Liam Cunningham |
| Music by | Clint Mansell |
| Cinematography | Hang-Sang Poon |
| Edited by | Marco Cavé |
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Edko
Pathé |
| Distributed by |
Asmik Ace Entertainment Pathé Samuel Goldwyn Films |
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91 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5,874,530 |
Blood: The Last Vampire, released in Japan as Last Blood (Japanese: ラスト・ブラッド Hepburn: Rasuto Buraddo?), is a 2009 English-language, French-produced horror-action film; it is the remake of the 2000 anime film of the same name.
Directed by Chris Nahon and co-produced by French company Pathé and Hong Kong company Edko with the blessing of Production I.G, the English-language film was released in Japan and other Asian markets on 29 May 2009. It was released in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2009 and saw a limited release to theatres in the United States starting on 10 July 2009. The film focuses on a half-human, half-vampire girl named Saya (Jun Ji-hyun, credited as Gianna Jun) who hunts full-blooded vampires in partnership with humans and seeks to destroy Onigen, the most powerful of vampires.
A young woman on a train eyes a nervous man. In a flash, he is chased down the train and the young woman slices him in half. She is Saya (小夜; Jun Ji-hyun), a four-hundred-year-old skilled half human-half vampire samurai who hunts vampires. Raised by a man named Kato (Yasuaki Kurata), she works loosely with an organisation known as "The Council", a secret society that has been hunting vampires for centuries. Saya's motivation goes beyond duty; she wants revenge; Onigen (Koyuki), the oldest of the vampires, murdered her father. For her next mission, she goes undercover as a student at Kanto High School on an American air base near Tokyo, Japan.
When she is introduced in her class, Saya's appearance quickly attracts the negative attention of a female classmate, Sharon (Masiela Lusha). The daughter of the base's general, Alice McKee (Allison Miller), is also bothered with the attention. At her school, she finds herself being mocked. Alice is asked by her Kendo instructor Powell (Colin Salmon) to stay for the Kendo practice due to her poor performance. As soon as the teacher leaves, she finds herself at the mercy of Sharon and her sidekick friend who wield sharp bladed katanas to taunt and torment her. An elaborate fight sequence ensues. Saya shows up just in time to stop Sharon from slashing Alice's throat. Despite Saya's effort to disguise her activity, Alice sees Sharon and her friend being butchered. However it is soon revealed that Sharon and her friend are vampires in disguise.
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