Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

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:

Cross | Demon | Jeep | 1960s | Halloween

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)
Steven Jay 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

Production Management
Micaela Buye	....	production manager: Argentina

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 Inc.

Distributors

• IG Plus
• IPA
• 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 S.L.
• 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:

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:

Referenced in Blade II (2002)

Soundtrack:

Let's Dance

Superb

Visually splendourous movie that leaves you wanting more and wondering more. As with a good comedian who leaves his audience wanting more, so too does this movie leave you craving for more information about the mysterious Saya. A lot of reviewers lament the fact that little is known or explained about Saya, they want a neat little Hollywood package where everything including date of birth is explained.

Well I think the charm of this movie is the mystery of its central character.

The soundtrack is suitably haunting and together with the visuals makes for a movie that sucks you in and keeps you there.