Trailer - Blood

Not to be confused with Chris Nahon’s upcoming live-action version of Blood: The Last Vampire, Ten Shimoyama’s Blood is a totally unrelated vampire movie starring 40-year-old Aya Sugimoto as a seductive vampire. Sugimoto is a former J-pop star who caused a stir in 2003 when she divorced her husband of 11 years on the grounds that they didn’t have enough sex, making her sort of a cultural icon for neglected housewives everywhere. In 2004 she starred in Takashi Ishii’s remake of the BDSM classic, Flower & Snake, cementing her status as Japan’s foremost self-aware sexpot.

In the film, Detective Hoshino (Kanji Tsuda) visits the mansion of Miyako Rozmberk (Sugimoto) in order to investigate the murder of her former maid. She blames the murder on a man named Ukyo Kuronuma (Jun Kaname), whom Hoshino catches in the act of biting a young girl’s neck as she begs for her life. Ukyo was once known as Okita, a swordsman from Edo period who was turned into a vampire by Miyako. Hoshino soon finds himself turned into a vampire as well, and ends up in a battle with Ukyo for the right to spend eternity with the irresistible Miyako.

Blood opens on April 29th in Japan.

Official website (dead link removed - http://www.blood-japanmovie.jp/)