So, I just went and watched the trailer for Casshern a few more times and, yep, still absolutely mind blowingly incredible. Go watch it now whilst repeating these two phrases over and over: “first time director” and “six million dollars“. Every major film studio in the world should be lining up at Kaz Kiriya’s door begging him to work for them.
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googling around the web led me to a couple sites that gave me the story behind the movie…it’s an anime gone real sci-fi:
“Live action Casshern movie, a Japanese-Korean co-production, and adaptation of the Shinzo Ningen Casshern animated TV series…
Incarnations:
1970s live action super hero programme
1973: 35 episode anime TV series.
1993: 4 episode anime OAV series in 1993.”
(http://www.eternalgaze.net/eternalarchives/000056.html)
WTF!! That is the best trailer I never understood in I don’t know how long! This is one I want to see!!
Any more info you can scrap up on this one would be excellent!!
Cheers,
Mercer
Your site rocks, I’m glad I found it!
Duuuudddeeee….
I need a towel
But seriously. I hope that itr doesnt take several years to get a decent dvd out. And most importantly, let Media Blasters produce it. they did an outstanding job with Versus.
The Casshern website just got a bit of a facelift … don’t like the new front end as much, but they’ve added some English language info on the background and story of the film … if nothing else this bodes well for english subtitles on the eventual Japanese DVD release … they’re obviously aware that there are a lot of english speakers hungry for this …
Actually, in my experience, japanese films with effort behind them have an AWFUL LOT of substance over style. Sure, japanese films have a definite STYLE to them, but if anyone’s guilty of more often than not, putting quantity before quality, it’s Hollywood, not the japanese.
Sure, there are japanese films that do have more style than anything, but certainly not enough to label the entire country’s film industry with following a trend.
I just cross my fingers for this flick not to follow the “style above substance” trend of japanese films.