The Kizumonogatari film trilogy is finally nearing the release of its’ first film after years of delays, silence and concern over the films being stuck in the purgatory of production. Naturally, with the film set to air in Japan in about a month, we’ve finally received a full trailer for the first movie, Kizumonogatari Tekketsu-hen (Blood and Iron).

The official website for the film trilogy published the trailer alongside the previously released promotional videos, however the videos on the site are not available to those outside of Japan at the present time. Fortunately, a kindly bootlegger enough to publish the trailer to YouTube which you can view below:

The trailer features a fair amount of footage from videos that have been published in the last few months but there are some changes the audio track, the cutting of the footage, and the addition of a handful of new characters. Between the screaming and the violence, this new trailer feels like it’s for a horror movie.

SHAFT is producing the film trilogy, as it has with every season of the Monogatari series to date. Akiyuki Simbo will be returning in his role as the chief director as he has for the anime series.

Kizumonogatari is based on the third volume of the Monogatari book series by NisiOisiN that shares the same title. The story is a prequel to the first volume, Bakemonogatari, and follows series protagonist Koyomi Araragi after an encounter with a female vampire, Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade, leads to Araragi’s transformation to a vampire, changing his life forever.