Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Writers:

Kenji Kamiyama (screenplay) and
Katsuya Terada (writer)

Release Date:

17 August 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Horror | Action

Plot:

Japan, 1966. Saya is part of a secret team destroying daemons. She is sent undercover as a student at the Yokota Air Base in Fussa-shi...

Plot Keywords:

Vampire | Japan | Halloween | Nurse | Schoolgirl

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Youki Kudoh	...	Saya (voice)
Saemi Nakamura	...	Nurse Makiho Caroline Amano (voice)
Joe Romersa	...	David (voice)
Rebecca Forstadt	...	Sharon (voice)
Stuart Robinson	...	Louis (voice)
Akira Koteyama	...	Mama (voice)
Tom Fahn	...	Teacher (voice)
Fitz Houston	...	S.P. #1 (voice)
Steve Blum	...	S.P. #2 (voice) (as Steven Blum)
Paul Carr	...	School headmaster (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dave Mallow	...	(voice)

Directed by
Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Writing credits
Kenji Kamiyama		(screenplay)
Katsuya Terada		writer

Produced by
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa	....	executive producer
Yukio Nagasaki	....	producer
Mamoru Oshii	....	supervising producer
Akira Sato	....	executive producer
Ryuzo Shirakawa	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Yoshihiro Ike

Art Direction by
Yusuke Takeda

Art Department
Hiroshi Kato	....	artboards

Sound Department
Kazuchika Kise	....	sound editor
Keiichi Momose	....	sound director
Jonathan Wales	....	sound re-recording mixer

Visual Effects by
Tokumitsu Kifune	....	3D CGI
Katsuya Terada	....	3D CGI

Camera and Electrical Department
Miki Sakuma	....	animation camera operator

Animation Department
Shinji Arakawa	....	animator
Toshiyuki Inoue	....	animator
Toshiyuki Inoue	....	assistant animation director
Akiharu Ishii	....	animator
Taketomo Ishikawa	....	animator
Mitsuo Iso	....	animator
Yoshiyuki Itô	....	animator
Kanta Kamei	....	animator
Kenji Kamiyama	....	color artist
Toshihiro Kawamoto	....	animator
Toshinobu Kikuchi	....	animator
Kazuchika Kise	....	animation director
Hiroyuki Kitakubo	....	animation director
Ken Koike	....	animator
Kôji Komurakata	....	animator
Masahiro Kôyama	....	animator
Masahiro Kurio	....	animator
Ikuo Kuwana	....	animator
Jun Matsumoto	....	mechanical designer
Norio Matsumoto	....	animator
Kayoko Nabeta	....	animator
Yutaka Nakamura	....	animator
Tetsuya Nishio	....	assistant animation director
Hiroyuki Okiura	....	animator
Masaya Ônishi	....	animator
Shinji Otsuka	....	animator
Tsunenori Saitô	....	animator
Masahiro Sato	....	animator
Kanami Sekiguchi	....	animator
Masahiro Sekino	....	animator
Hiroya Takeda	....	animator
Katsuya Terada	....	character designer
Miyako Yatsu	....	animator
Kou Yoshinari	....	animator

Other crew
Hisashi Ezura	....	director of visual concept
Mamoru Oshii	....	visual concept director
Shinji Takagi	....	technical supervisor

Production Companies

• Aniplex
• IG Plus
• Production I.G.
• Sony Computer Entertainment

Distributors

• IG Plus
• IPA Asia Pacific
• Living Colour Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Madman Entertainment (2004) (Australia) (all media)
• Manga Video (2001) (USA) (dubbed)
• Production I.G.
• SPE Visual Works
• Selecta Vision
• Sony Computer Entertainment America
• Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) (2000) (worldwide) (all media)

Other Companies

• Anime International Company (AIC)  in-between animation
• Anime Torotoro  in-between animation
• Anime-R  in-between animation
• Asahi Production  digital operation
• Bee Train  in-between animation
• Cello Studio  recording studio
• Digital Content Association of Japan  production cooperation
• Dolby  recording cooperation
• Gainax  in-between animation
• Garage Hiro  recording cooperation
• Ground Control Studios  re-recording studio
• I.G Niigata  in-between animation
• IKIF  3D CG animation production
• IPA  production cooperation
• Imagica  prints
• Laser Pacific Studio  foley recording studio
• MS  recording studio
• Magic Bus  in-between animation
• Media Ventures  music mixing studio
• Multi-Access Company  digital operation
• Production I.G.  3D CG animation production
• Production I.G.  digital operation
• Production I.G.  in-between animation
• Studio Biho  background art
• Studio Live  in-between animation
• Studio MAT  in-between animation
• Studio Mark  in-between animation
• Studio One Pack  in-between animation
• Studio Sheeta  in-between animation
• Studio Takuranke  in-between animation
• Studio Wombat  in-between animation
• Tamazawa Dogasha  in-between animation
• Toyo Camera Center  recording cooperation
• Westside Studio  recording studio
• Woodholly Studio  ADR recording studio

Runtime:

48 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

South Korea:18 (cable rating) | Australia:M | Canada:14A | UK:15 | Spain:13

Company:

Aniplex

Trivia:

The plane flying over head, just before the closing credits start, is a Boeing B-47 US Air Force Medium Bomber, but the voice over implies it is a B-52.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#34.6)" (2005)

Soundtrack:

Let's Dance

A good show that leaves the audience wanting more.

What can I say, but I really loved this anime film. All 48 fricking minutes of its short, well made, coolness. The story of what I was able to peace together, involves Saiya some sort of immortal vampire hunter who might just be a vampire herself, even though thats left to the audiences imagination since the bulk of the story involves suspense with well done action sequences. At the start of the film shes sent off by her boss and his cronie to American Air Force base where there seems to be an infiltration from three confirmed vampires. She then sets off to exterminate them while trying to save a school nurse who seems to be the target of the vampires attention. What follows is then is one long sequence that makes up the rest of the film as Saiya and her boss battle the three vampires while trying to save the life of the nurse. Then its over. Just like that. No resolution to little plot details, like the origins of Saiya, or how she came to work for the orginization that she works for. You never really understand the point of the vampires beyond the fact that they're the villians and they bite peoples necks to kill them. Or for that matter why Saiya acts the way she does at the end of the film. Looking back at what I liked about this film, I think I would have to rank this as another digitally animated film from this year, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Unlike that film though, which left the intrigued viewer wanting more from the story. This film just leaves you wanting more story period. The direction, the animation are all top notch high grade stuff. Its just at the end, you leave yourself feeling as this has been nothing more than a well made tech demo. Well I hope its not, since I'm praying for a longer sequel to be made soon.