Vampire Hunter D (1985 film)
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| Kanji | 吸血鬼ハンターD | ||||
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| Directed by | Toyoo Ashida | ||||
| Screenplay by | Yasushi Hirano | ||||
| Based on | Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi | ||||
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| Music by | Tetsuya Komuro | ||||
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| Distributed by | Toho | ||||
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Running time | 80 minutes | ||||
| Country | Japan | ||||
| Language | Japanese | ||||
Vampire Hunter D (Japanese: 吸血鬼ハンターD, Hepburn: Banpaia Hantā Dī) is a 1985 Japanese original video animation directed by Toyoo Ashida from a screenplay by Yasushi Hirano. It is based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Hideyuki Kikuchi.
The film is set in the year 12,090 AD, in a post-nuclear holocaust world where a young woman hires a mysterious half-vampire, half-human vampire hunter to protect her from a powerful vampire lord.