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Kanji | 吸血鬼ハンターD | ||||
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Directed by | Toyoo Ashida | ||||
Screenplay by | Yasushi Hirano[1] | ||||
Based on | Vampire Hunter D Volume 1 by Hideyuki Kikuchi | ||||
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Music by | Tetsuya Komuro[2] | ||||
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Distributed by | Toho | ||||
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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.