Moon Child (2003 film)

Moon Child
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTakahisa Zeze
Written byGackt
Kishu Izuchi
Takahisa Zeze
Produced byTakashi Hirano
StarringGackt
Hyde
Leehom Wang
Tarō Yamamoto
Susumu Terajima
Zeny Kwok
Anne Suzuki
James Houston Thomas
Kanata Hongō
CinematographyTakahide Shibanushi
Music byJerry Jeff Walker
Gackt
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • April 19, 2003 (2003-04-19)
Running time
120 minutes
LanguagesJapanese
Mandarin
Cantonese
English
Box office$3,713,831[1]

Moon Child is a 2003 Japanese science fantasy horror action film starring Gackt, Hyde, and Leehom Wang. It was released on April 19 in Japan, and screened on May 13 at the Cannes Film Festival and on April 12, 2004, at Philadelphia Film Festival. In November 2023 for its 20th anniversary it was re-screened nationwide in Japan.[2] The movie's story is adaptation of Gackt's original story related to his "Moon Saga" concept.[3] Although the original story is about a vampire and his friends, it "reverses the concept of marginalised Asians living illegally in Japan to that of a group of marginalised Japanese renegades hiding out in a fictional futuristic city on the Asian mainland, named Maleppa, following Japan's economic collapse in the opening decades of the 21st Century".[4]

  1. ^ "Moon Child at Box Office Mojo". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  2. ^ "HYDE×GACKT共演の映画『MOON CHILD』再上映が決定、20周年記念グッズの予約受付スタート". Billboard Japan. 13 October 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  3. ^ "HYDEとGACKTが共演した映画『MOON CHILD』公開20周年記念再上映決定【コメントあり】". Oricon. 13 October 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  4. ^ Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. FAB. p. 283. ISBN 9781903254530.