Vampire Hunter D (1985 film)

Vampire Hunter D
Theatrical poster, designed by Yoshitaka Amano
Japanese name
Kanji	吸血鬼ハンターD
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Kyūketsuki Hantā Dī
Directed by	Toyoo Ashida
Screenplay by	Yasushi Hirano[1]
Based on	Vampire Hunter D Volume 1 by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Produced by	Hiroshi Kato Mitsuhisa Hida Yukio Nagasaki[1]
Starring	Kaneto Shiozawa Michie Tomizawa Seizō Katō Keiko Toda
Cinematography	Kazushi Torigoe Yukio Sugiyama
Edited by	Kazuhiko Seki Naoyuki Masaki Toshio Henmi
Music by	Tetsuya Komuro[2]
Production companies	Epic/Sony Records Movic CBS/Sony Group Ashi Productions[1]
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	December 21, 1985 (1985-12-21) (Japan)
Running time	80 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Vampire Hunter D (Japanese: 吸血鬼ハンターD, Hepburn: Kyūketsuki Hantā Dī) is a 1985 Japanese fantasy horror^[3] OVA film produced by Ashi Productions, in association with Epic/Sony Records, CBS/Sony Group, and Movic. The screenplay is based on the first in the long-running series of light novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

Billed by the Japanese producers as a "dark future science-fiction romance", the film, like the novel before it, is set in the year 12,090 AD, in a post-nuclear holocaust world where a young woman hires a mysterious half-vampire, half-human vampire hunter to protect her from a powerful vampire lord.