Casshern - this sci-fi looks amazing

Started by pete, February 26, 2004, 12:32:20 PM

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pete

February 26, 2004, 12:32:20 PM
www.casshern.com
check out the trailer.  the cinematography looks pretty cool, MTV-esque type stuff I guess, but cool-looking nonetheless.

(admin-powered trailer direct link so you don't have to go through stupid install language packs)
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Raikus

#1
February 26, 2004, 03:44:46 PM
If they did a live-action Final Fantasy I'd expect it to look just like this.

This really does look like something in the vein of FF VII or VIII.
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meatball

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February 28, 2004, 09:30:19 PM
I can only hope it has substance to back up the flash.

Kal

#3
February 28, 2004, 10:23:27 PM
Looks cool!

Sleuth

#4
February 28, 2004, 11:28:10 PM
Oh my fucking Gosh
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Just Withnail

#5
February 29, 2004, 08:05:23 AM
Quote from: meatballI can only hope it has substance to back up the flash.

Personally I'm putting aside all hopes from the get go. I think this one's purely up for the flash factor, but judging from the trailer, it looks like that's gonna be more than enough.

MacGuffin

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April 24, 2004, 11:29:19 PM


The film tells the story of a young man, “Casshern” (played by Yusuke Iseya, the writer-director and star of the 1993 crime drama, “Kakuto”) who is reborn as an android to stop the world's wars.

For months, this sci-fi Japanese feature has garnered the attention of many internet movie buffs, which has pleasurably surprised the film’s director. In a March interview with Joblo.com, "Casshern" director Kazuaki Kiriya, who makes his feature film debut, warns USA audiences that his 2 hour 20min. film may not be your typical summer action blockbuster.

“To tell you the truth, I am really surprised by the reactions we are getting from the international audiences. I'm even beginning to think that the trailer was misleading. You might be disappointed if you are expecting a feel good action movie,” Kiriya later adds, “[The film] really is a human drama, based loosely on Shakespeare's Hamlet.”

Kiriya also admits that currently the film does not have a North American distributor. But, and there is a BUT … that interview was posted in mid-March.

Just as recent as last Tuesday the film was spotted at Los Angeles’ AMC 14 in Century City. An AMC theatres representative was able to confirm that the film, “Casshern” was screened privately on April 20th. The screening could possibly have been set-up for potential American distributors, especially since the Futuristic film’s appeal has over-flown to the States.

Sci-fi fans should be crossing fingers, because there is a good chance that “Casshern” might be hitting USA shores soon.
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The Perineum Falcon

#7
July 07, 2004, 11:25:51 PM
Here's a review!

http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/casshern.shtml

Featuring such words as:

Flippancy!
Transmogrified!
Duplicitous!
Geriatric Generalissimo!
Sweatshop!
and Nihilistic Blockbuster!
We often went to the cinema, the screen would light up and we would tremble, but also, increasingly often, Madeleine and I were disappointed. The images had dated, they jittered, and Marilyn Monroe had gotten terribly old. We were sad, this wasn't the film we had dreamed of, this wasn't the total film that we all carried around inside us, this film that we would have wanted to make, or, more secretly, no doubt, that we would have wanted to live.

kotte

#8
July 10, 2004, 10:16:25 AM
A bit Halo-y but still fantastic...

MacGuffin

#9
October 27, 2004, 01:42:45 AM
DreamWorks buys rights to 'Casshern'

DreamWorks Pictures has taken domestic distribution rights to the Japanese feature "Casshern." Based on a 1970s animation series, the live-action feature follows a young man reborn as a bioengineered being who becomes involved in a bitter struggle between humankind and androids. Japan's Shochiku released the film in April in its home country. The film, directed by Kazuaki Kiriya, was produced by Hideshi Miyajima, Toshiraru Ozawa and Toshiaki Wakabayashi.
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Pubrick

#10
October 27, 2004, 04:37:59 AM
all links to the trailer on the entire interweb are dead.

edit: nevermind, found it on soulseek with translations.
under the paving stones.

MacGuffin

#11
November 17, 2004, 03:53:35 PM
Un-dead Trailer link here (without subtitles).
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Ravi

#12
November 30, 2004, 11:03:36 AM
A store here that has Asian DVDs has Cass Hern on DVD from some company called HK Star or something.  I'll just wait for it to hit the big screen in the US.

RegularKarate

#13
August 01, 2006, 11:11:23 PM
Quote from: Ravi on November 30, 2004, 11:03:36 AM
A store here that has Asian DVDs has Cass Hern on DVD from some company called HK Star or something.  I'll just wait for it to hit the big screen in the US.

I guess this never happened (if it did, I missed it).

Just currious... did anyone ever see this?  I just stopped it a little more than an hour in because it's just so unwatchable.  It's like if you taught Guy Ritchie Japanese, showed him a bunch of Terry Gilliam films and anime, gave him a shit load of coke and ten thousand dollars to complete a 50 million dollar movie.  That or they just took clips from some playstation game and stuck live actors in front of them.  Yowps it's bad.

Ravi

#14
August 02, 2006, 11:12:33 PM
Well, I totally forgot about this film.  If its that bad, I'll re-forget it.
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