Higanjima : Escape From Vampire Island
is a film made in japan about blood sucking vampires that have taken over a full island
and left the survivers under fear, hate and sorrow, when Rei bumps into
Akira and saves him from a gang of punks everything starts to go downhill for him
and his friends when they find out that Akira's brother Atshushi is still alive on this
vampire infested island!
The film was origenally a Manga written by Kôji Matsumoto (Writer of Defnote) and director
Tae-Gyun Kim turned it into a full length non-animated film!
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The colours used on the case are dark shade of blue, purple and grey, a blood red colour and black and white, these colours all blend in with the "Horror" genre to bring out an un-easy and unwelcoming over all impression, the way these colours are used and blended bring this out! starting from the first thing you see, which is a close up of the main vampire 's face (miyabi), first of all he's in a shadow with a little bit of light on his face, this could mean that he's the bad guy, but his facial expression and the way the lighting is possitioned makes us automaticly think he's hiding in some way, possibly more ways than one, his pale skin makes you have the assumption that he's ice cold and possibly dead, then you see the red eyes and fangs which piece it all together that he's a vampire. In the background you can see an island which seems dark and misterious, the reason it seems this way is the blends of the dark colours and surrounded by water which is rough, not calm, also the fork lightning gives off a feel of danger especially with the mysterious bat-like creature flying around it, the faqct that Miyabi's head is hiding the island also gives off a mysterious feel to the island.
Trailer to Higanjima: Escape From Vampire Island
(in japanese couldn't find a subtitled trailer)
My thoughts on world cinema are that it's
more interesting than the Mainstream/Hollywood cinema
because of 3 particular reasons;
1: The actors in the film arn't that well known, so you know nothing about them or their acting methods.
2: It isn't all hyped up and overspent on to make it "Hollywood Perfection" standard.
3: The narrrative appears to usually have more to it than most Hollywood films do, in Hollywood they usually like to keep it short and sweet so they don't lose out on money.
E.g, if i compare this film to Twilight:
for Higanjima the main Vampire is Koji Yamamoto (Miyabi) that you wouldn't have heard of till i told you
for Twilight the main vampire is Robert Pattinson (Edward) who is well known for being Sedrick Digory in Harry Potter and is also well know for being a "Pretty Boy"
Higanjima has a different quality on the cover compared to Twilight, not only does twilight have a massive amount of effects on the cover, but also had a massive hype up before the film was actually released.
although! both of these films are actually based on books!
Escape From Vampire islands distribution company is Manga "a starz company"
Manga Entertainment Ltd. is an entertainment company specialising in the production, marketing and distribution of japanese animation for theatrical, telivision, internet, DVD and home video release world wide. The manga film library is marketed and distributed in the U.S, through anchor bay entertainment, The company is headquarterd in L.A with offices in New York and London. Manga is a division of starz media, a programming production and distribution company operating world wide. It includes the film roman and anchor bay entertainment brands. It's units create animated and live-action programming -including theatrical films- and programming created under contract for other media companies. It distributes that programming through home video retailers, theartres, broadcasters, ad supported and premium television channels, and internet and wireless video distributors in the U.S and internationally. Starz media is an operating unit of starz, LLC, which is controlled subsidary of liberty media corporation, and is attributed to liberty capital group.
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