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''The Last Eve'' is a 2005 action film directed by Young Man Kang, a Korean-born filmmaker who made his U.S. directing debut with '' Cupid's Mistake'' (2001).


Plot

The film consists of three tales that combine martial arts action with biblical characters:
Eve Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story, "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the universe and its inhabitants came to be. Creation myths develop through oral traditions and there ...
's Secret,
Cain and Abel In the biblical Book of Genesis, Cain and Abel are the first two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain, the firstborn, was a farmer, and his brother Abel was a shepherd. The brothers made sacrifices, each from his own fields, to God. God had regard for Ab ...
, and the Snake's Temptation.


Production and release

The Last Eve was shot in
Death Valley Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the Highest temperature recorded on Earth, hottest place on Earth during summer. Death Valley's Badwat ...
,
Koreatown A Koreatown (), also known as a Little Korea or Little Seoul, is a Korean-dominated ethnic enclave within a city or metropolitan area outside the Korean Peninsula. History Koreatowns as an East Asian ethnic enclave have only been in existence s ...
in Los Angeles, and South Korea. The Los Angeles filming was executive produced by Kimmarie Johnson. It took 2 years to complete the film. The film won the Best Action Feature film Award at the 2005 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.


Reviews

The Last Eve was included in
Film Threat ''Film Threat'' is an American online film review publication, and earlier, a national magazine that focused primarily on independent film, although it also reviewed videos and DVDs of mainstream films, as well as Hollywood movies in theaters. ...
's Ten Best Unseen Films of 2005. In his review for Film Threat, Phil Hall described the film as "the world’s first avant-garde theological martial arts love story. Taking the story of Western civilization’s first eviction recipients and spinning it across a bizarre variety of unlikely landscapes, the immensely gifted filmmaker Young Man Kang has brought forth a production which is so astonishing and original than it is impossible to compare it to anything that has ever been made." This film was released on DVD on August 26, 2008 by Vanguard Cinema.


Awards

;Won : New York International Independent Film and Video Festival: :: Best Action Feature Film Award ( Young Man Kang) : New York B Movie Film Festival: :: Best Cinematography ( Young Man Kang)


References


External links

* 2005 films 2005 action films American martial arts films 2005 martial arts films Films directed by Young Man Kang 2000s American films Films about Adam and Eve Cultural depictions of Cain and Abel {{martialart-film-stub