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 HepburnKyūketsuki Hantā Dī
Directed byToyoo Ashida
Screenplay byYasushi Hirano[1]
Based onVampire Hunter D Volume 1
by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Produced by
  • Hiroshi Kato
  • Mitsuhisa Hida
  • Yukio Nagasaki[1]
Starring
Cinematography
  • Kazushi Torigoe
  • Yukio Sugiyama
Edited by
  • Kazuhiko Seki
  • Naoyuki Masaki
  • Toshio Henmi
Music byTetsuya Komuro[2]
Production
companies
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • December 21, 1985 (1985-12-21) (Japan)
Running time
80 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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.

  1. ^ a b c d Galbraith 2008, p. 346.
  2. ^ "Vampire Hunter D". MusicBrainz. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  3. ^ See, Raphael. "Vampire Hunter D". THEM Anime Reviews. Retrieved 11 April 2021.