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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. The film saw a theatrical release in the United States on July 6, 2007, and received similarly positive reception while also grossing an additional $18.2 million financially.

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.

The first country outside of Japan where the film saw a release was South Korea, where it was released by CJ Entertainment on March 8, 2006. It would later be released in Taiwan by Mighty Media on August 11, 2006 and in France by Metropolitan Filmexport on October 18, 2006. Due to the film's success in Japan and owing to the success of Blue Blanket in it's US theatrical release, the North American distribution rights were picked up by Lionsgate Films. The film had it's American premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on September 22, 2006 followed by an additional screening at the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema on November 17, 2006. Lionsgate released an English-dubbed version of the film in 1,258 theaters on July 6, 2007. It was originally planned to be released in theaters in America on May 18, 2007 but was ultimately pushed back due to the company's heavy film schedule in May and June. The film also saw additional releases from Optimum Releasing in the UK and Madman Films in Australia later that year.

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 and Blu-ray in the United States on November 13, 2007. 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.