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Blood Type: Blue (1978)
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
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UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new “blue-bloods” being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
Length 133 minutes
Actors
Hiroshi Katsuno | Keiko Takeshita | Tatsuya Nakadai | Kunie Tanaka | Eiji Okada | Kaoru Yachigusa | Masaya Oki | Yusuke Okada | Etsushi Takahashi | Harumi Arai | Naoko Ôtani | Ichirô Nakatani | Hideji Ôtaki | Shizuo Chûjô | Shigeru Kôyama | Shin Kishida | Yoshio Inaba | Kappei Matsumoto | Masao Imafuku | Tomo'o Nagai | Tetsuya Ushio | Hideyo Amamoto | Katsumi Muramatsu | Shôji Ôki | Kô Sugita | Daigo Kusano | Hugh Graham | Theodore Köber | John Mayer | Dieter Oeler | Curtis Bond | Gregg Bushta | Alain Daumalle | Chouard Pienick | Allen Lieb | Euginia D'Ambrosio | Bill Gold | Dbernay Jean-Michel | Toshitaka Itô | Ban Kojika | Sachio Sakai | Akiyoshi Kitaura | Kazuhiro Fukuzaki | Yōji Matsuda | Kô Mitsui | Toru Takeuchi | Kiyoshi Yamamoto | Kinji Omino | Gô Endô | Shôshin Kobayashi | Shinji Ogawa | Shinsuke Ashida | Shôgo Shimada | Eitarô Ozawa
Viewing History (seen 2 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/14/2021 | TV | Broadcast | TV | 6.5 stars |
| 08/17/2018 | Computer | Broadcast | Other | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6.25 stars |
Viewing Notes
Wasn’t sure I was gonna watch this movie via DKU-TV but once I saw it stars Tatsuya Nakadai (SWORD OF DOOM, HARI-KARI, etc) I was glued in. Unfortunately this movie needed a better screenplay and editor. Its 2:13 runtime is felt especially in the final third. Has a good start to set the table but slowly goes downward from there (basically from when Nakadai’s Minami visits NYC looking for a missing person).
There are a lot of great themes in here, which is basically like a spin on Invasion of the Body Snatchers but people have blue blood from alien/UFO exposure. Government does government bullshit which leads to other conspiracies about what may be really happening. They cram a lot into this movie without paying much of it off other than the expected ending.
Would’ve been more effective to tighten this whole thing up to around 1:45 runtime or at least explore some of the themes more, both ethical and moral implications of this phenomenon.
This has a huge cast and it’s weird they bring in cameos like Hideyo Amamoto’s character for 2 scenes and only a few minutes of screen time. That is an interesting character too but just disappears in the story.
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