Casshern is a movie about post-apocalyptic Japan...and the apocalypse has evidentially turned the world steampunk. Some of the steampunk visuals were cool...they reminded me of animation sequences from a Final Fantasy game or something.
The movie is based on an old anime...
...and the story follows a young man named Tetsuya who through a freak accident is "chosen by the lightning" (whatever that means) to save humanity--already in dire straits--from complete annihilation. Pictured above is Tetsuya's faithful anime dog, Friender. WHAT AN AWESOME NAME. Friender names a cameo in the film...but the name is romanized as "Flender", which is whack.
OK, so what then is "Casshern"? Well, Casshern is the peace-loving god that people worshiped before war broke out.
When I first saw the trailer for this film back in 2004, I was pumped up for it. However, since then, I'd heard a lot of terrible stuff about it. I'd have to say that the movie isn't as bad as some of its detractors say...but it isn't that great, either? The visuals are nice but the action sequences are really boring. I don't know if it was just the DVD I had, either, but the timing on the subtitles was late and even with an only basic understanding of Japanese I could tell they were kind of crappy/left stuff out.
I did love the casting, though. Everyone in the film was beautiful!
^ Mayumi Sada, who is hapa and therefore gorgeous
I also thought the blue eye contacts were great!
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