Blood:The Last Vampire (血戰:最後的吸血鬼) is a 2009 movie. The movie stars Korean mega-star Gianna Jun (Jun Ji-hyun). Supporting roles are filled in by Allison Miller, Koyuki, and Yasuaki Kurata. This movie is based on the anime of the same name. Additional plot points are lifted from the Blood+ anime series.
Gianna plays Saya, a 400 year old half breed vampire. Saya has a human soul and hunts down other vampires with no soul. Ultimately, Saya is searching for Onigen, whom is responsible for Saya's father's death. The story comes to a head during the Vietnam war, on a US Armed Forces base in Japan and in the surrounding city.
The movie runs about 87 minutes. Any longer and it would have sucked even more. The movie was hard to watch and the action was a little absurd in its length and quantity. Too much for way too long. The climatic battle scenes were a let down due the heavy CGI.
I actually enjoyed the two "Making of..." segments more than the movie! Gianna is quite beautiful and her English is actually really good. You can notice the Korean "FOB" accent, but with a little more practice, it can be concealed really well.
I wanted to note that Gianna is her Westernized name. Jun Ji-hyun is the name most others know her by. If you remember, one of the "dream" sequences of "My Sassy Girl" was of Ji-hyun as a action fighter. Ji-hyun got that and much more with Blood.
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