Blood: The Last Vampire

Aside from its slightly awkward title, "Blood: The Last Vampire", an original anime feature film produced by the impeccable Production I.G back in the year 2000, an aspiring time in anime industry where the western otaku crowds had finally started marching out in hordes (and many in their mostly pathetic cosplay get-up), was quite a mini phenomenon so to speak, spawning a fifty episode anime series (Blood+, set in an alternate reality mirroring the film), some Japanese novels, the obligatory video game, and inevitably now, a live-action feature film. The official site seemed to be under the title of "Last Blood" (probably in lieu to the earlier mentioned awkwardness in the original title) but it has been confirmed that it will remained as "Blood: The Last Vampire". The opening of the trailer seemed like a blast from the past right out of the Shaw's 70s kungfu flicks with the funky ninja types but gets pretty promising (for an actioner bill, that is) as it moves on, what with the extended gratuitous gore and the cool moves by Koyuki (famed in the west for her role in "The Last Samurai") as the very cool-looking villain. Incidentally, the film will be staying true to source by being filmed primarily in English, though marketing probably had more to with this decision, if you ask me.