Based on Koshiba Tetsuya’s yet another “look-at-the-busty-slim-teenage-girls-in tight-shirts-and-short-skirts” popular manga comic series, Miike Takashi’s TV movie in 2 parts “Yuya of Yokohama: Tennen Shojo Man Next” is a typical child of the 1990’s with lots of cheese topping for teenagers drawn to romanticised vampire flics. It’s a compressed vampire boy-meets-girl-and-changes-forever narrative, usually condemned to countless televised seasons of series called something like “The Bite of Love” or turned into a franchise as terrifying as “The Twilight Saga”. Luckily enough, it’s a Takashi Miike film, and although half-heartedly directed, “Man, A Natural Girl” contains typical elements of his films as we know and cherish them. One of them is the twisted sense of humor, dry and hilarious, sprinkled all over the story-line like a fine layer of sugar powder. The scenes in which a gang of vampire girls cover their ears in horror when the music changes from...
- 8/8/2019
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Blood-lusters everywhere rejoice, for Ten Shimoyama's Japanese vampire flick 'Blood' will be hitting North American DVD and Blu-ray shelves on 15 March 2011 thanks to the rights being acquired by Go USA. Aya Sugimoto (below) and Guts Ishimatsu star alongside Jun Kaname, Satoshi Matsuda, Hidejiro Mizumoto, Yuri Morishita, Atsushi Narasaka, Rin Sakuragi, Harumi Sone, Masahiro Sudo, Kanji Tsuda and Sayo Yamaguchi. Check out the synopsis and the bloody trailer below....
- 1/13/2011
- Horror Asylum
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