For a country with such a rich visual history in their films, it would seem that another effort would’ve come along by now that tackled the so-called ‘Avant-Garde Vampire Film’ movement. Still, such is the praise being labeled on Naoki Yoshimoto’s celebrated hour-long experimental piece Kyuketsu, also known as ‘Sanguivorous’ and destined to have originally been performed with live musical accompaniment.

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Trying to move her relationship along, a young woman (Ayumi Kakizawa) finds herself struggling with strange nightmares and bizarre dreams about vampires. Her boyfriend (Masaya Adachi) finds a link involving her family discovering a coffin of a Romanian count hundreds of years ago and becoming a part of a family curse turning her into a vampire. As she delves deeper into the series of dreams and nightmares about a strange vampire tormenting her, she comes to realize the danger it poses to her and her boyfriend.