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A Vampire Calls (ヴァンパイアが呼ぶ, Vu~anpaia ga yobu) is a 2005 Japanese anime romance fantasy film directed by Gorō Taniguchi and based on the 1997 manga series by Ryotaro Sekizawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Ichirō Ōkouchi. The film is about a seventeen year boy named Shou Arakaki, who rescues a girl named Naomi one night whilst heading home, and it turns out that she is actually a vampire, causing him to protect her from a glory-seeking hunter and for her to end up protecting him from other vampires who roam the night.

A Vampire Calls was one of the first new anime adaptations of a Ryotaro Sekizawa manga following the successes of Teen Samurai and the Blue Blanket trilogy. Produced by Sunrise, the film was released in Japan by Shochiku on June 18, 2005, where it received positive reviews from critics and grossed ¥1.5 billion at the Japanese box office.

Plot
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Release
A Vampire Calls initially premiered in a small amount of theaters in Japan on June 18, 2005, with Shochiku handling the distribution. Following it's successful opening then, it's release would be expanded to additional theaters on July 2.

Home media
Bandai Visual released A Vampire Calls on DVD in Japan as both a standard edition and a limited collector's edition on March 17, 2006. The limited collector's edition featured a copy the movie version of the manga, alongside memorabilia including collectible cards, a booklet featuring character designs and storyboards, and a reel containing five random stills from the feature film, while bonus features on both DVD editions include audio commentaries, behind the scenes featurettes, an interview with Ryotaro Sekizawa, production drawings, and storyboard to scene comparisons. By May of 2009, the film had sold 3 million DVD units in Japan. A Blu-ray edition was released in Japan on August 8, 2008.

Lionsgate Home Entertainment released the film on DVD in the United States on October 10, 2006, with an English dub that featured Jason Earles, Nick Nolte, Max Thieriot, Kristen Bell, Skip Stellrecht and Christian Slater as some of the characters. In addition to most of the bonus features from the Japanese DVD release, there is also a featurette on the English dub's production along with a different audio commentary than the Japanese DVD release's. It was later released on Blu-ray on July 13, 2010.