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Koji Yamamoto, Hideo Ishiguro, Dai Watanabe, Asami Mizukawa, Miori Takimoto ... see more see more... , Tomohisa Yuge

One young man's search for a missing family member leads him into a terrifying adventure in this thriller from Japan. Akira (Hideo Ishiguro) is a high school student who has fallen into a deep depress... read more read more...ion since his big brother Atsushi (Dai Watanabe) vanished under mysterious circumstances two years earlier. One day Akira is approached by a beautiful woman, Rei (Asami Mizukawa), who hands him something surprising -- Atsushi's identification card. Akira learns that Atsushi was abducted by a gang of vampires and has been spirited away to their secret island, and while he's been bravely fighting off his captors, he's been unable to escape. Akira joins forces with Rei and a handful of his friends, several of whom have remarkable fighting skills, to vanquish the vampires and bring Atsushi home. But this is more easily said than done, and Akira and his allies quickly learn that the leader of the vampire cult (Koji Yamanoto) is a fearsome adversary. Higanjima was directed by South Korean horror veteran Kim Tae-kyun and received its American premiere at the 2010 South By Southwest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Directed by: Tae-gyun Kim

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  • skactopus
    October 29, 2011
    skactopus
    Higanjima has got the makings of a thriller, but Tae-gyun Kim ends up with a dramatic and partially dark picture instead.

    For a film that dances near the two hour mark, there is quite a bunch left unsaid. That means the story meanders its way to its prolonged final act.

    ... read more It's not that the events of the movie are irrelevant to its story, but there are times where things become melodramatic and/or difficult to take seriously.

    The violence gets bloody when it needs to and that probably helps keep this film from derailing off the track. The action is passable, with some small potential seen in the swordplay, and some mediocre CG when utilized for some unexplainable creatures.

    Hideo Ishiguro is one of the few cast members with a character that is sufficiently set up. Asami MIzukawa, Miori Takimoto, Tomohisa Yuge, and Koji Yamamoto are some of the supporting personnel with promising characters that suffer from limited build up.

    Higanjima is a watchable movie. Just don't expect a masterful vampire spectacle.

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Scott Weinberg
January 9, 2011
Scott Weinberg, FEARnet

Very broad, way too talky, and sometimes too damn goofy for its own good. Full Review

Anton Bitel
September 7, 2010
Anton Bitel, Little White Lies

the flat characters here are even more lifeless than their undead opponents, making this one strictly for the original comicbooks' more obsessive young fans. Full Review

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