--- title: 'Moon Child (2003)' type: 'film' director: 'Takahisa Zeze' released: '2003-01-01' runtime_minutes: 119 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Action' - 'Horror' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/moon-child-2003' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365514/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Moon Child (2003) 2003 · 119 min · Drama, Action, Horror · Japan ## Synopsis Moon Child is a 2003 Japanese science fantasy horror action film starring Gackt, Hyde, and Leehom Wang. It was released on April 19 in Japan, and screened on May 13 at the Cannes Film Festival and on April 12, 2004, at Philadelphia Film Festival. In November 2023 for its 20th anniversary it was re-screened nationwide in Japan. The movie's story is adaptation of Gackt's original story related to his "Moon Saga" concept. Although the original story is about a vampire and his friends, it "reverses the concept of marginalised Asians living illegally in Japan to that of a group of marginalised Japanese renegades hiding out in a fictional futuristic city on the Asian mainland, named Maleppa, following Japan's economic collapse in the opening decades of the 21st Century". ## Credits - **Screenplay:** [GACKT](https://cinepixo.com/people/gackt), [Takahisa Zeze](https://cinepixo.com/people/takahisa-zeze) - **Original Music Composer:** [GACKT](https://cinepixo.com/people/gackt) - **Director:** [Takahisa Zeze](https://cinepixo.com/people/takahisa-zeze) - **Producer:** [Takashi Hirano](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-hirano) ## Cast - [Hyde](https://cinepixo.com/people/hyde) as ケイ - [Susumu Terajima](https://cinepixo.com/people/susumu-terajima) as 信士 - [Anne Suzuki](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-suzuki) as ハナ - [Wang Leehom](https://cinepixo.com/people/wang-leehom) as 孫 - [Etsushi Toyokawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/etsushi-toyokawa) as ルカ - [GACKT](https://cinepixo.com/people/gackt) as ショウ - [Ryo Ishibashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryo-ishibashi) as ローリエ - [Tarō Yamamoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/taro-yamamoto) as トシ - [Kanata Hongō](https://cinepixo.com/people/kanata-hongo) as ショウ ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/moon-child-2003 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1946689); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.