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The Blue Stigma
Japanese theatrical release poster
Directed byKihachi Okamoto
Written bySô Kuramoto
Produced byKenji Kakiuchi
Michio Morioka
StarringHiroshi Katsuno
Keiko Takeshita
Eiji Okada
Kaoru Yachigusa
Masaya Oki
CinematographyDaisaku Kimura
Edited byYoshitami Kuroiwa
Music byMasaru Satô
Release date
  • 23 November 1978 (1978-11-23)
Running time
133 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

The Blue Stigma (Japanese: ブルークリスマス, Hepburn: Burū Kurisimasu, lit. 'The Blue Christmas'), also known as Blood Type: Blue[1] is a 1978 Japanese science fiction film by director Kihachi Okamoto. It deals with prejudice against UFO witnesses whose blood is turned blue by the encounter.

Plot

The blood of those who witnessed UFOs turned blue, and when the number of such people increases, then the President of the United States makes a decision after suffering.[2]

Cast

Release

The Blue Stigma was distributed in Japan by Toho Pictures on November 23, 1978.[3]

Production

Satoshi Kuramoto's original scenario is a political drama that focuses on the nation's plot to eliminate the changes it brings as foreign bodies, rather than the encounter between UFOs and humankind on Earth. The plot is ultimately achieved by the eradication of blue-blooded humans by military force, but in the process, Kuramoto relentlessly portrays political propaganda using broadcast media.

Kuramoto's scenario was published in " Kinema Junpo " the year before the production, and it was triggered by Tomoyuki Tanaka, who was the president of Toho Video at that time. Tanaka is a producer of Toho special effects movies, and at the same time, he is also known as a big science fiction enthusiast, such as holding a planning meeting inviting science fiction writers around " Matango " (1963). It led to the decision to accept Kuramoto's script, which is far from the special effects that is a specialty, as "if it is interesting as science fiction".

Kihachi Okamoto was selected at the request of Tanaka, who has formed a combination for many years, but Okamoto himself always dreamed of encountering a UFO. Okamoto recalls that he was happy to receive Kuramoto's script as a "gift" in the preface to the scenario book published with the release of the movie. In addition, I immediately arranged a cameraman to shoot the actual scene of Christmas (because it is impossible to shoot the actual scene if it was released before Christmas the following year). However, it is said that Okamoto was quite reluctant to respond to Kuramoto's request that "the script cannot be modified at all". Okamoto complained that Kuramoto's script was "thick like a phone book and that he had to shoot on location all over the world, which required a huge budget and labour", and at one point he should do it in a TV drama rather than a movie. There was also one. However, as a result of discussions with Kuramoto, Okamoto made a movie by cutting the scene of the White House where the President of the United States and the Secretary of State plan to deal with humans with blue blood and the scene of Hokkaido where the runaway tribe is attacked by special forces. I got the confidence to complete it. In general, the first part starring Tatsuya Nakadai is said to be Okamoto Touch, and the love story of Hiroshi Katsuno and Keiko Takeshita in the second part is said to be Kuramoto Touch, but rather Okamoto Touch appears in the latter. He says that he is.

References

  1. ^ Blood Type: Blue (1978), retrieved 2020-12-08
  2. ^ "ブルークリスマス". JCD. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  3. ^ "ブルークリスマス : 作品情報". 映画.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-12-01.