Blood: The Last Vampire 2009  R, 89 min.
Genre: Action / Horror / Thriller
Director: Chris Nahon
Cast: Gianna Jun, Koyuki, Michael Byrne, Colin Salmon, Alison Miller, Masiela Lusha, JJ Feild, Liam Cunningam, Yasuaki Kurata, Andrew Pleavin, Larry Lamb, Constantine Gregory, Ailish O'Connor, Joey Anaya
In this live-action adaptation of the animated film, Blood: The Last Vampire (2000), half-vampire, half-human Saya (Gianna Jun) has been hunting demons and vampires for over 400 years. Now, the Council has sent Saya to a U.S. military base in Tokyo where she befriends a general's daughter, Alice McKee (Alison Miller), and battles the demon vampire Onigen (Koyuki).
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 The Last Samurai 2003  R, 144 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall, Tony Goldwyn, Koyuki, Sosuke Ikematsu, Aoi Minato, Masato Harada, Masashi Odate, William Atherton, Chad Lindberg, John Koyama, Togo Igawa, Shichinosuke Nakamura
In 1876, Civil War veteran-turned-drifter Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) takes on the task of training the Japanese Imperial Army in the use of modern weapons of the West. With this new expertise, the Emperor plans to modernize Japan by sending his army into battle against the last of the feudal, militaristic samurais. Algren leads the troops into battle but is captured by samurai leader Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe) from whom he learns meditative, instead of violent, ways to deal with life. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor (Ken Watanabe).
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Pulse 2001 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Kairo
Circuit
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka, Masatoshi Matsuo, Jun Fubuki, Shinji Takeda, Koji Yakusho, Shun Sugata, Sho Aikawa, Kenji Mizuhashi
After Taguchi (Kenji Mizuhashi) commits suicide, his friends (Haruhiko Kato and Kumiko Aso) experience strange events that could mean Taguchi is trying to contact them–or is he?
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| 1. Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
2. The Last Samurai (2003)
3. Pulse (2001)
aka: Kairo
aka: Circuit
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