10 Outrageous Japanese Films Hollywood Wouldn't Dare Remake

When Monami (Yukie Kawamura), the weird new girl who avoids sunlight, confesses her love for Jyugon (Takumi Saito) with a customary gift of chocolate, it infuriates his girlfriend Keiko, played by Eri Otaguro, who’s unaware her rival is a centuries-old vampire. Unbeknownst to them, however, is that Keiko’s weedy father is really “The scientist of the century”, a Frankenstein descendant conducting strange experiments in the basement while wearing garish facepaint and a fright wig.

The girls’ rivalry comes to a head when Monami transforms Jyugon into a vampire, which in turn leads to an untimely demise for Keiko, much to her father’s delight (“I can chop up her body! Every father with a daughter dreams of this!”). Now he’s able to reanimate her as a pieced-together creature whose detachable limbs can be used as lethal boomerangs or propellers that allow her to fly around the room. Thank goodness a zombie killer nurse and a hunchback custodian named Igor are around for credibility.

A non-stop fusillade of no-holds-barred manic invention, where the blood hits the lens on several occasions, Vampire Girl has no ambition other than to top its competitors, which with its snappy pacing, brilliant make-up and agreeably demented narrative it does several times over, even throwing in a Japanese schoolgirl taking a blood shower for good measure.