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Tonight's film is LADY VAMPIRE (1959, 女吸血鬼), a Japanese black-and-white horror film, supposedly the first to feature a Western-style vampire.

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That was...odd. Tonally all over the place. Some really interesting variations on traditional vampire lore, interesting tie-in with Japanese history. Last twenty minutes or so are almost as campy as an episode of Scooby Doo.

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