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MOON CHILD
I watched this movie today (technically yesterday but I haven't gone to bed yet so screw that) called MOON CHILD starring Gackt. If you don't know who Gackt is well all you need to know is that he is another Japanese musician that I am extremely fond of. Regardless, I had been kind of intrigued by this movie for a while and I finally decided to watch it. I was mostly a little skeptical because I figured this was just some fanservice movie made for fangirls to salivate over, but thankfully that is NOT the case.
Anyways, the basis plot of the movie that I am about to tell you sounds absolutely ridiculous, so just keep that in mind before you read it. Basically this movie takes place in the near future in a fictional city in mainland China. Some economical collapse that is never really fully explained occurs in Japan and a bunch of people wind up immigrating to China. So the story follows Gackt's character Sho who starts the movie as an orphan street kid who steals for a living. He then winds up finding this random hobo-esque dude in the street somewhere who starts to get burned by the sun, so he decides to save him. Yep, turns out this random dude is a vampire. After he saves him some gangster guy that he stole from at the beginning of the movie comes to beat the shit out of some kids, but winds up getting his own ass kicked by this vampire dude. Instead of being scared by him Sho smiles at him disturbingly... fast forward a decade or so later and Sho is now a young man who is best friends with this immortal vampire dude.
So yeah, I told you guys the basic plot of this movie sounds kind of dumb... but it is actually pretty good I thought. Basically Sho grew up as a street kid so he earns a living by busting up gang hideouts with his vampire friend Kei, after their mutual friend Toshi randomely delivers drugged pizza. The movie starts out kind of non-serious and even hilarious (at certain parts) at first, but shit quickly hits the fan and it turns into a pretty serious gangster/drama/relationship film that actually has some pretty sad/touching moments that I wasn't really expecting.
I watched the movie spliced up slightly because I had to do some other crap during the day, so I am probably going to watch it again tomorrow (today) in 1 sitting and try to get a better feel for the movie. It wasn't the GREATEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN, but I thought it was a pretty good movie, especially considering the fact that it was written by Gackt himself, who pretty much had absolutely no movie experience whatsoever when he came up with this movie.
That being said, you don't really need to be a fan of Gackt or Hyde (plays the vampire, lead signer from L'Arc～en～ciel) to like this movie, but it would probably make you like it a bit better if you are familiar with at least one of them. But if you don't mind watching foreign movies then you might like this, since it has a fairly decent mixture of action/story/character scenes... and I also think it has some good messages in it too... not the mention that the theme song to this movie is awesome.
