
Battle Royale(2000)
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.


Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life and the curse of blood thirst. Over time, their tight friendship becomes corrupted because of their rivalry and love for the same woman.

GACKT
Sho

Hyde
Kei

Leehom Wang
Son

Zeny Kwok Sin-Yu
Yi-Che

Anne Suzuki
Hana

Taro Yamamoto
Toshi

Susumu Terajima
Shinji

Ryo Ishibashi
Inspector Lorry

Etsushi Toyokawa
Luka

Seiji Chihara
Moon Child is a horror, action, thriller, science fiction, drama film released in 2003 exploring themes of friendship, japan, assassination, love triangle, society, vampire. Directed by Takahisa Zeze, it stars GACKT, Hyde, Leehom Wang. Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life and the curse of blood thirst. Over time, their tight friendship becomes corrupted because of their rivalry and love for the same woman.
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