Back to the movie: it was based on Japanese anime film. But strange enough I never see this around. Maybe it was really popular in Japan or other parts of the world.
Blood: The Last Vampire is an anime film produced by Production I.G and Aniplex and directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. The film premiered in theaters in Japan on November 18, 2000.The story is set in the American Yokota Air Base located in post-WWII Japan, a few months before the beginning of the Vietnam War. Its main protagonist is a girl named Saya, who hunts hematophagous bat-like creatures called chiropterans for a secret organization known as the Red Shield.
This is the Movie version acted by the pretty Korean actress. If you recall the popular " MY Sassy Girl" that's her. That sweet, violent, pretty, brutal, yet innocent sassy girl. I really like her character's image here. Much more pretty and stunning then the anime version.
From the muscular cuffs observed as she run around, I guessed she must have done quite a lot of work out for this movie.
I am not sure about how people judge films but as for me I think it is quite enjoyable.
Rank: 4/5
Storyline: 1/5
Though story line sucks at the end by the action, graphic and the opening was good. Other than the last 1/4 of the movie is very hard to understand, the rest was good.
The atmosphere, the setting was nice but the computerized monsters were a bit....weird.....and the splattered blood. Why it is like animed ? I dunno how to explain. It just look weird. Sometimes it is not even red in colour.Towards the second half of the movie I was kind of confused about that lady with long black hair and dressed in white kimono. But somehow I sort of guessed that she must be Saya 's mum. Typical anime story-line anyway. Still it is worth watching. ^^~~~
I love her sad sad eyes. So beautiful and telling you her life-long sorrows.
Plot Summary: On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling." Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts. When she is sent onto an American military base in Tokyo by the clandestine organization she works for, Saya immediately senses that this may be her opportunity to finally destroy Onigen, the evil patriarch of all vampires. Using her superhman strength and her sword, she begins to rid the base of its evil infestation in a series of spectacular and elaborate showdowns. However, it is not until she forms her first human friendship in centuries with the young daughter of the base's general that Saya learns of her greatest power over Onigen may well be her ability for human connection...For movie preferences it really depend on different people. Sometimes my friends claimed that xxx movie is a must watch. But quite a lot of times I am totally disappointed. I remember there was this Cartoon about some penguin finding its mate across atlantic. People keep saying how fantastic it was and how meaningful, touching....To me: a bunch of fat penguin in black and white singing romantic songs to each other. Music is great but....still.....penguin.-_-............ Total let down.
Also that "Scary Movie", seriously other than 1 of them the rest is a total waste of time to watch. Btw I love " In the Mood for Love" by Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung. I watched it a few times actually. OK....guessed most people find it Boring but not me. I simply love it. IT is a very beautiful, romantic, melancholic.
Love the song: In the Mood for love too.
Love this part:
The setting of the final narration of the story is at Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Chow is seen visiting the Angkor Wat and whispers several years worth of secrets into a hole in a wall, before plugging the hole with mud - a method that he mentions by which a secret can be kept whilst dining with his old friend during his stay in Singapore.
The tension and forbidden feeling between them is so intense. Wihtout saying anything, just a glance, a hand that shakened slightly and the end butt of a cigeratte tells the whole story. I am really impressed with how the director manage to create such a feeling and mood. You simply see the loneliness in their eyes, sadness and anger over their adulterous spouses. Somewhere around the middle of the movie, the mood changed. As days past by and that get closer to each other, something between them grew. There is a sort of hide and seek between them. He wanted to admit he love her but she withdraw and moved away. So he felt defected and embarassed. Another she gather up enough courage to find him, he is trying hard to up hold his principle for not following the foot step of his wife. Nevertheless the is taste of sadness at these two people who so desperately in love with each other but were unable to do so. They do not dare to cross the boundaries in a conservative society though their spouses did.
Oh well... it is a really romantic movie about love. In the mood for love.
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