, also known as ''From Dracula with Love'',
is a 1991 Japanese
comedy horror
Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literary genre, literary, television genre, television, and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Comedy horror has been described as able to be categorized under three ty ...
film directed by
Shūsuke Kaneko
is a Japanese filmmaker.
Life and career
Shūsuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo on June 8, 1955. According to the biography on his official website Kaneko was interested in science fiction, particularly Godzilla and Gamera films, from a young age. ...
. It stars
Ken Ogata as a pharmaceutical company employee who finds himself in
intensive care after a critical injury and during a
transfusion is given the blood of
Count Dracula.
Plot
After the complete destruction of
Count Dracula, his vampiric blood arrives in Japan, where a young scientist who is researching vampires hides it in a hospital for later experiments.
At the same time, Shutaro Ishikawa, who works for a pharmaceutical company, discovers a scandal, but is killed before he can make it public. In the hospital, he accidentally receives some of Dracula's blood. The young scientist tells the daughter of Shutaro to drop blood on his ashes to allow him to revive.
One year later, Shutaro is reborn as a vampire. After some familiarization with his situation and help from his daughter and the scientist, his goal is to avenge his murder by feasting on the blood of the strong and virile.
Cast
*
Ken Ogata as Shutaro Ishikawa
*
Hideyo Amamoto as Servant
* Harumi Harada as Takeda
* Sumiyo Hasegawa as Enokida
*
Hikari Ishida
(born May 25, 1972) is a Japanese actress. She starred along with Megumi Odaka and Natsuki Ozawa in the TV-series ''Hana no Asuka-gumi!''. She also released several singles and six albums and she had one minor hit with the song "Emerald no Suna ...
as Saeko
*
Narumi Yasuda
is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Inujini seshi mono'', '' Minami e Hashire, Umi no Michi o!'' and ''Sorobanzuku''. She also won the award for best actress at the 13th Hochi Film A ...
as Yuzuko
Reception
Hikari Ishida won seven awards for Best New Actress:
Japan Academy Awards,
Blue Ribbon Awards,
Hochi Film Awards
The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun
, previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day.
It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''.
...
,
Kinema Junpo Awards
, commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing months into three parts, but the postwar ''Kinema Junpō'' ha ...
,
Mainichi Film Concours
The
are a series of annual film awards, sponsored by Mainichi Shinbun (毎日新聞), one of the largest newspaper companies in Japan, since 1946. It is the first film festival in Japan.
History
The origins of the contest date back to 1935, ...
,
Nikkan Sports Film Award
The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by the ''Nikkan Sports''.
Categories
*Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Film, Best Film
*Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Foreign Film, Best Foreign Film
*Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director ...
,
Yokohama Film Festival
The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year and various awards are given to personnel. The first festival, held on February 3, 1980, was a small affair by fans and film critics. In 1994, ...
.
Ken Ogata was nominated as Best Actor for the 1992 Japan Academy Awards, but did not win.
References
External links
*
Varietyjapan.com
1991 films
1990s Japanese-language films
Japanese comedy horror films
Vampire comedy films
Films directed by Shusuke Kaneko
1990s comedy horror films
1991 comedy films
Films scored by Kow Otani
1990s Japanese films
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