Based on the popular manga by Matsumoto Koji,
Higanjima can best be described as
Battle Royale meets the vampire world.
Volcano High and
Crossing director Kim Tae Kyun returns to his genre roots with his Japanese film debut, an action-packed horror-thriller about a group of young people trapped on an island with deadly vampires. This is no
Twilight: the vampires are fast and fierce, they travel freely in the daylight, and they have no qualms about killing off any human on the island in all kinds of violent ways. Travel with stars Ishikuro Hideo (
Gokusen), Watanabe Dai (
Crows Zero), and Mizukawa Asami (
Nodame Cantabile) right into the heart of darkness with
Higanjima.
Akira (Ishikuro Hideo) gets into trouble with a group of thugs, but he is suddenly saved by the mysterious Rei (Mizukawa Asami). She tells him that his long-lost brother Atsushi (Watanabe Dai) has been living on Higanjima, the home of his wife. However, vampires have taken over the island, killing Atsushi's wife and leaving Atsushi to survive there on his own. After an attack by a vampire hitman, Akira decides to go with Rei on a journey to Higanjima to find his brother, and maybe they'll even fight a few vampires along the way.