Blood: The Last Vampire, released in Japan as Last Blood (Japanese: ラスト・ブラッド , Hepburn: Rasuto Buraddo ), is a 2009 vampire action film directed by Chris Nahon, writt by Chris Chow, produced by Ronny Yu, and stars Jun Ji-Hyun, Allison Miller, Liam Cunningham, Masiela Lusha, and Koyuki.
An international co-production of France, Hong Kong, China, Japan and the United States, the film is a live-action adaptation of the anime film of the same name created and produced by studio Production I.G. Like its source material, the film focuses on a half-human, half-vampire girl named Saya (Ji-hyun) who hunts full-blooded vampires in partnership with humans and seeks to destroy Onig, the most powerful of vampires.
The 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. It received unfavorable reviews, being negatively compared to its source material.
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In 1970s Tokyo, Saya is a 400-year-old half human-half vampire who hunts vampires. Raised by a man named Kato, she works loosely with an organisation known as The Council, a secret society that has be hunting vampires for cturies. Saya's motivation goes beyond duty; she wants revge: Onig, the oldest of the vampires, murdered her father. For her next mission, she goes undercover as a studt at Kanto High School on an American air base near Fussa.
Wh she is introduced in her class, Saya's appearance quickly attracts the negative atttion of a female classmate, Sharon. The daughter of the base's geral, Alice McKee, is also bothered with the atttion. At her school, she finds herself being mocked. Alice is asked by her Kdo instructor Powell to stay for the Kdo practice due to her poor performance. As soon as the teacher leaves, she finds herself at the mercy of Sharon and her sidekick frid who wield sharp bladed katanas to taunt and tormt her. 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 frid being butchered. However it is soon revealed that Sharon and her frid are vampires in disguise.
Because The Council cleans up the bodies of the demons, Alice's father does not believe her story. Determined to make her own investigation, Alice goes to the bar where her Kdo instructor usually hangs out. To her horror her instructor, as well as the rest of the people in the bar, turn out to be vampires. Once again Saya comes to her rescue and has to fight off hordes of vampires surrounding them.
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Geral McKee investigates The Council, who disguise themselves as CIA. Alice arrives just in time to witness her father's death. Her dying father gives her Saya's address. With nowhere else to go, Alice decides to seek Saya's help. Fortunately Saya has never sworn loyalty to The Council and protects Alice instead. The two of them flee the area and go off to the mountains to find and slay Onig.
In their pursuit, Alice and Saya are run off the side of the road by an attacking demon and they fall into a ravine. Wh Alice and Saya awak they are in Ancit Japan where Saya was raised. Onig appears, reveals her true idtity as Saya's mother, and fights Saya. Saya slays Onig. Alice, who is injured during the fighting, wakes up to find herself at the wreckage of the truck and being carried into an ambulance. Later she is interviewed about the evts surrounding her father's death, but her interviewer does not believe her story about the vampires or the Council. Wh asked about where Saya is, Alice answers that she is searching for a way back from the other side of the looking glass.
In May 2006, Bill Kong announced that he was producing a live-action film adaptation of Blood: The Last Vampire, directed by Ronny Yu. Like the source anime, it would be primarily filmed in glish rather than Japanese.
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Kong and Yu originally planned to finance the project themselves, but in November 2006, Production I.G officially consted to the film and began offering financial support.
In early announcemts, it was stated that the film would be set in 1948 at a United States Army camp in Tokyo, shortly after the conclusion of World War II during the American occupation of Japan.
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group licsed the film for release in North America, where it was released to theatres by Samuel Goldwyn Films on 10 July 2009.
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Cathy Rose A. Garcia of The Korea Times regarded Jun as being probably the only bright spot in this film, criticising the convoluted plot... cheesy special effects and overacting from the supporting cast. She dismissed much of the film's violce as gratuitous and noted that although the stunts were impressive they also lacked originality, while the climactic showdown showed an absce of any real excitemt.
The film received negative reviews from American critics. On review aggregator website Rott Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 25%, based on 53 reviews, with an average rating of 3.73/10. The website's critical conssus reads, Based on a classic anime series, Blood: The Last Vampire is a tedious, shoddily acted, amateurish picture that loses all charm in the transition to live-action.
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Variety's Peter Debruge was critical of editor Marco Cave for reducing all but one of the fight sces into a flurry of cuts, and described the CG effects as herky-jerky. Commting on the direction, he said, Nahon privileges surface appeal and kinetic ergy over narrative logic, and finesses the footage with an unpleasant yellow tinge that gives everything a vintage chopsocky feel.
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Felix Vasquez, Jr. of Cinema Crazed praised the film as blockbuster material, finding the film's special effects to be top notch and Nahon's direction as oft times beautiful as he convinces us successfully that we're watching a vampire period piece. Conversely, he felt the film lacked a real story, focusing mostly on sword-fights, and that the character of Alice was dead weight and a tok character added to avoid the film being completely Asian.
The Hollywood Reporter's Maggie Lee praised Jun's performance as Saya, feeling that she displays ample aptitude for being an action heroine, doing most of her own tdon-twisting martial arts stunts and looking utterly fetching in a sailor suit that could turn any guy into a uniform-fetishist. However, she felt the direction and screplay lacked freshness and nuance, the special effects and choreography cool but unimpressive, and the ding predictable.
Roger Ebert rated the film three out of four stars, stating that it was surprisingly tertaining and a CGI fantasy. He found the plot to be inconsequtial to the action sequces. While he felt that Gianna was never really convincing as a martial artist, he praised her for her sympathetic performance which he felt held the film together. As a whole, he found the movie to be sincere as an tertainmt that looks good and is atmospheric, and notes that he will be watching for Gianna in future films.
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