Burû Kurisumasu |
Japan • 1978 • 133m •
  • Directed by: Kihachi Okamoto. • Starring: Hiroshi Katsuno, Keiko Takeshita, Eiji Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Masaya Oki, Yûsuke Okada, Etsushi Takahashi, Harumi Arai, Naoko Ôtani, Kunie Tanaka, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideji Ôtaki, Shizuo Chûjô. • Music by: Masaru Satô.   UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
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Review:
Set in present day Japan, the film postulates about how people would react if suddenly half the population was changed in a subtle way by mysterious UFOs. The UFOs appear and whom ever sees them has their blood permanently turned blue. This causes a mass panic where everyone is classified by their blood color and all the blues are cruelly discriminated against and eventually rounded up in concentration camps. In the midst of this, a romance blooms between a red and a blue played by the leads.
The UFOs only appear very briefly, most of the film is taken up by melodrama and illustrations of mass prejudice. It's an interesting concept and the director clearly does not have much faith in humanity. Unfortunately, by the time the very melodramatic conclusion arrives (and it takes a while) I didn't care anymore and most of the audience had left in boredom.
Review by Chung Mo from the Internet Movie Database.
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