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A lot of the comments written for this title are ridiculous. This is a documentary about vampyres, people that have chosen a certain way of live. Not a cheesy Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode. It's like comparing Starship Troopers to Bowling For Columbine. And it's obvious the point of the film has missed a lot of people by miles, which is a shame, because, despite of how they may dress or whatever they call themselves, with this film these people offer an exclusive look into a world full of valuable lessons for everyone. But prejudice and associating vampyres with all the wrong things will certainly blind you from them. But for those who are willing to watch this film objectively it can be very insightful!

In "Audition" (or "Odishion") Aoyama, who's wife had died a few years earlier, is encouraged by his son to get remarried. In order to find the right woman, his friend Yoshikawa, decides to arrange a fake audition for a fake movie. But even before the audition takes place, Aoyama is intrigued by a girl called Asami, and he picks her at the audition.Yoshikawa however, doesn't trust the girl and start checking on her background. But as he finds out it doesn't check out, Aoyama is already way too deep in love with Asami, and doesn't pay any attention to Yoshikawa's concerns. Then one day during holidays with Aoyama, Asami disappears. As Aoyama starts his search for Asami, he learns more and more that his adorable girlfriend isn't quite so cute at all...

This movie is so absolutely brilliant! It takes one of Japan's film-specialties to the absolute max. In the first half of the movie you'll really start caring about the characters in the story, specially the adorable Asami, but as the movie subtely starts to brainwash you, it brutally tears all that tenderness to bits by turning the adorable cute little girl into a sick monster even Carnage (Marvel-comics) would be scared off. I'm an advanced brainwashing-movies-watcher, but even I thought this was HEAVY. Nevertheless, this is one of the best movies I have seen in my life, and if you ask me, the only worthy opponent for this movie is "Requiem for a Dream". If you have the stomach, you should see this movie. 10/10

MOMMY!! HELP!!! There's a cute Japanese girl under my bed!!

This movie is about a rich man, Heihachi Mishima, who is obsessed with destroying the devil in order to create a better new world. He intentionally throws his son Kazuya from a cliff creating a devil within Kazuya. However, nobody has ever seen Kazuya ever since. Certain that Kazuya will go for it, Heihachi announces a martial arts competition. The one who get to Heihachi first and the manages to defeat him, wins the prize-money and the title of "King of Iron Fist". Kazuya shows up indeed but as he attempts to kill his father he is consistently stopped by Jun, a girl from his childhood, who was there when Heihachi threw him off the cliff. Now is there at the tournament and she won't stop at nothing to release Kazuya from the devil within him.

Although this Anime is not the exactly best, I think they did a very good job with the story. Considering the amount of Tekken characters in existence (52, including the ones that are not in the game)they managed to get many of the characters in it without harming the continuity of the story. On the other hand I thought there was too little of Devil in it and Jun just doesn't stop talking. 6/10