Also Known As: Mun chairudo

moon child

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Running time: 120 minutes
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Directed by: Takahisa Zeze
Produced by: Takashi Hirano
Written by: Gackt, Takahisa Zeze, Kishu Izuchi
Starring: Gackt, Hyde, Wang Lee-Hom (”The Avenging Fist”, “China Strike Force”), Taro Yamamoto, Susumu Terajima, Zeny Kwok (”Glass Tears”, “Merry-Go-Round” ), Anne Suzuki, James H. Thomas
Release Date: 2003

Plot Synopsis:
I like this movie a lot… This movie talk about year 2045, after the Asia’s economy collapse, people all over Asia live in a country called Mallepa. All kinds of people live there - Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, Hong Kongs, all kinds of people. In this chaotic and raging city where all the dreams lie, fate brings 4 orphans to meet Kei, a man with eternal life - a vampire. Caught in the strings of fate, they cannot escape the conflict, which leads them to a point where they must face each other with hatred, love and guns. The story depicts the vulnerable characters in struggle to live, through action, love and test for friendship. Sci-Fi action drama starring glamorous Hyde of L’Arc en Ciel and Gackt Camui of Malice Mizer - two of Japan’s top rock music legends with a chinese music icon - Wang LeeHom. Filmed in Taiwan with upcoming international cast.

Japanese live in a large refugee community - one that is poor and despised. A gang of Japanese urchins, led by the brothers Sho and Shinji and their buddy Toshi, eke out a criminal living on the fringes of this community. One day, Sho encounters Kei (Hyde) - a wounded and desperate vampire - and takes him to the gang’s hideout. Soon after, a gangster shows up to reclaim a money-filled briefcase the kids have stolen. He shoots Shinji, but Kei tears him to pieces and sucks him dry.

Flash forward a decade. Sho and Toshi have grown into enterprising young hoodlums, who are plotting to rip off a local Taiwanese gang. Kei, who has added not a wrinkle to his ageless face, goes along as their ally.

In the ensuing shootout, the boys run into Son (Wang Leehom), a Chinese freelancer with the same plan in mind. Though they start by pointing guns at each other’s heads, they become friends and partners. Later, Son introduces Kei and Sho to his sister, Yi-Che (Zeny Kwok) - and they both promptly fall for her. Yi-Che, however, is mute - the result of a brutal gang rape. Her only means of expression is painting, at which she is highly talented.

This budding friendship and love triangle is violently interrupted by the Taiwanese gang, out for revenge. Kei disappears in the ensuing melee - and is not heard from again.

Fast forward a few more years. Shu and Son are now on opposite sides of the gang fence, when Kei comes back into their lives, as a condemned prisoner. Vampirism, it turns out, is a crime punishable by death. Can anything bring back the good old days - or will former friends and lovers be forever torn apart, spiritually and otherwise, by violence and death?

“The friends who become enemies” theme is classic, but Zeze further stirs the pot with the odd relationship of Sho and Kei: one mortal, the other not, but both bound by love for the same woman and for each other. There is not only the unintentionally steamy gay subtext - these guys even have an intimate tet-a-tet in an open sports car in the moonlight - but the distracting celebrity subtext. Both Hyde and Gackt overwhelm their roles with their pop-star auras. They seem to exist in universes of their own, apart from not only the other actors, but also from the entire film.

This movie talks about people, in real life, and the feelings and bonds with each friends. And you won’t really believe the ending that you’re going watch in the end of this movie, It’s kinda unbelievable.

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