First pictures from Blood: The Last Vampire

By M&C Jun 12, 2009, 10:33 GMT

Saya is part of a secret team destroying demons.

First pictures from Blood: The Last Vampire.

WHERE EVIL GROWS SHE PREYS
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year old girl, 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 to an American military base in Tokyo by the clandestine organization for whom she works, Saya immediately senses that this may be her opportunity to finally destroy Onigen, the evil patriarch of all vampires. Using her superhuman 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 her greatest power over Onigen may well be her ability to make a human connection…

Renowned producers Bill Kong (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON; HERO) and Abel Nahmias (11 COMMANDMENTS, LA BEUZE) team up with director Chris Nahon (KISS OF THE DRAGON) on this English language vampire slaying adventure, where the hope of the world rests in the hands of a beautiful young woman.

Chris Nahon’s new action thriller is adapted from a popular anime film by Production I.G of the same title, BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE, which was released worldwide in 2000. It is a 48-minute suspense movie directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo (who was the key animator for Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA).

The story is set in Japan during the fall of 1966, when the United States involvement in Vietnam has turned into a full-scale conflict. The film features the story of a young girl named Saya: armed with a Japanese sword, she is sent by a mysterious "organization" to hunt down vampires that are hiding amongst the inhabitants of the Yokota U.S. Air Force Base - a small American enclave 30 km from Tokyo.

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