What if Blade was a Japanese School Girl?
If there is one thing I have learned from watching anime and Japanese movies for the last 17 years of my life it’s this, if you add bad-ass Japanese school girls to any plot it equals epic win. Especially where they have to seriously lay the smack down. Speaking of which Sony Pictures has just acquired the domestic rights to release the live action Blood: the Last Vampire movie. For those of you not in the know Blood was originally released as an animated OVA or original video animation by production I.G in back in 2000.
The Story of Blood:the last vampire is something like this, it’s the story of Saya who is a 400 year old “halfling”(Father was human and mother was a vampire) who on the outside appears to be your average 17 year old Japanese school girl with an affinity for samurai swords. In her spare time she hunts vampires because, due to her condition vampires are the only things she can feed upon and with her epically honed over 400 years samurai sword skills she shows Blade a thing or two. The story takes place near a US military base in Japan during the Vietnam war era.
The film is directed by Chris Nahon who also directed Empire of the Wolves, and Kiss of the Dragon and the movie is surprisingly english language. It stars Gianna whom you might remember from the korean movie My Sassy Girl(yes, this also had a bad American remake).
The film will be released this summer and honestly I can’t wait. Check out the trailer and website here.
