Fresh
A moody, mysterious fright film with a painterly beauty.
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
Blood: The Last Vampire
2000 · 48m · Not Rated
Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Directed by
Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Overview
In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new katana to her. Soon she saves the school nurse Makiho Amano from two vampires disguised of classmates and Makiho witnesses her fight against the powerful demon.
Director and cast
- Hiroyuki Kitakubo Director
- Youki Kudoh as Saya (voice)
- Saemi Nakamura as Nurse Makiho Caroline Amano (voice)
- Joe Romersa as David (voice)
- Rebecca Forstadt as Sharon (voice)
- Stuart Robinson as Louis (voice)
- Akira Koteyama as Mama (voice)
- Tom Fahn as Teacher (voice)
- Fitz Houston as S.P. #1 (voice)
- Paul Carr as School Headmaster (voice)
- Steve Blum Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Another example of animation that shows just how deep something as seemingly superficial as a cartoon can get.
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News
Rotten
The story ... is the sort of convoluted and often incoherent mess that is typical of the genre no doubt, rabid anime fans are better equipped to decipher its intricacies
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
Is much more effective at evoking a paranoid mood than at telling a coherent story, and the jerky action sequences are among the film's weaker visual elements.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
With its dour insularity and clingy fidelity to realism, this overhyped slashfest fails to rise above the extravagant pointlessness that plagues inferior anime.
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice
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