[attrition] review: Movie: Casshern

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http://attrition.org/movies/casshern.html

2004
Martums

If you're able to get your hands on this DVD, waste no time. Casshern has 
not yet been released in the U.S. with an English-dubbed audio track, 
which would be criminal if it were. Listening to the original cast deliver 
their performances, with subtitles, makes the experience even richer.

>From IMDB:

     In a world with an alternate history, a great war finally comes to an 
end leaving the earth diseased and polluted. The geneticist Dr. Azuma vies 
for support from the government for his neo-cell treatment that he claims 
can rejuvenate the body and regenerate humankind. The government leaders, 
guarding their own deeply entrenched powers, turn down the professor. 
Driven to complete his work, Dr. Azuma accepts a secret offer from a 
sinister faction of the powerful military. After an incident occurs in Dr. 
Azuma's lab, a race of mutant humans known as the Shinzo Ningen are 
unleashed upon the world. Now only the warrior known as Casshern, 
reincarnated with an invincible body, stands between the Shinzo Ningen and 
a world on the brink of annihilation.

Casshern could not be further from the standard Hollywood cookie-cutter 
nonsense, so often void of substance and passion. I went looking for a 
visually-stunning action flick, and got so much more. Kazuaki Kiriya's 
film struck emotional chords I would never have predicted. This film is 
nothing short of spectacular.

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