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Casshern released on DVD in Japan, who has it?
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heavy liquid
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Yeah, it has english subs. Can't wait to watch it. I should hopefully have the DVD tonight or tomorrow.
JackFrost2012
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I do! I do! Sho Nuff came over and watched it last night! Yeah!
Naked Snake
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The trailer didn't win me over.
JackFrost2012
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MrSingh said:
I certainly think so. It's a bit Japanese wanky metaphysical and slow in parts, but has nice characters, great costumes, and is so so so so so so so pretty. Fights, when they happen, are nice as well. It's basically a B-movie in A++-clothing.
JackFrost2012
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sp0rsk said:
the director was also the writer ... or maybe you were being very subtly sarcastic! for his first fucking movie he kinda knocked it out of the park. here's hoping he works with an actual scribe for his next film.
JackFrost2012 said:
You're wrong though. The director isn't the only writer. Casshern had a few writers on board, but the one credited for the main screenplay is Dai Sato. Famous for writing a shitload of anime scripts, ranging from Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain to Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone complex.
JackFrost2012 said:
yes. The guys a photographer so i had no doubts that thi smovie would be fucking beautiful and the cinematography was excellent, the acting was too. my only problem is that sometimes it felt like stuff was taken out of the movie for time constraints and left a couple holes. Beautiful beautiful movie though. Perhaps thats just the studios fault, but i dunno so ill blame it on the director
the fight scene between tetsuya and the robots was easily the best action sequence ive seen in a movie, probably ever.
Templar Wizard
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granted i have only seen half of the movie, a horrible subed CAM at that. and i really enjoyed it. im expecting some typical japanese 'morality' speechs from the 2 principals in the final reel to take it down a notch, but it looks and sounds fantastic.
Man, this movie would do well with american audiences i htink. Just the robot battle alone would sell this movie.
People talk about hk cinema\the matrix being "anime on film" Well they all just got owned hardcore by casshern. When they say "real life anime" in casshern, they arent fucking around. They even got actors that had voices that sounded like anime characters.
People talk about hk cinema\the matrix being "anime on film" Well they all just got owned hardcore by casshern. When they say "real life anime" in casshern, they arent fucking around. They even got actors that had voices that sounded like anime characters.
heavy liquid
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Finally got the set this afternoon. I haven't seen any pictures of it so I thought I'd take a couple and throw them up here, as it's really nicely done.
The set comes in a nice and sturdy silver/metallic box (that I managed to get out of focus..)
The three discs come in separate cardboard cases that fit inside.
Insides of the cases and back of the box
I only had a few minutes to flip through and view a couple of my favorite parts from the movie, but the picture looks great. I also tried to take a picture of the menu, but it didn't turn out right.
The set comes in a nice and sturdy silver/metallic box (that I managed to get out of focus..)
The three discs come in separate cardboard cases that fit inside.
Insides of the cases and back of the box
I only had a few minutes to flip through and view a couple of my favorite parts from the movie, but the picture looks great. I also tried to take a picture of the menu, but it didn't turn out right.
awesome. I have the DVD on order, cant wait to finally see it subbedheavy liquid said:Finally got the set this afternoon. I haven't seen any pictures of it so I thought I'd take a couple and throw them up here, as it's really nicely done.
The set comes in a nice and sturdy silver/metallic box (that I managed to get out of focus..)
The three discs come in separate cardboard cases that fit inside.
Insides of the cases and back of the box
I only had a few minutes to flip through and view a couple of my favorite parts from the movie, but the picture looks great. I also tried to take a picture of the menu, but it didn't turn out right.
/me hugs all region player
Christoff Yurievich
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according to IGN: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/561/561109p1.html?ui=ign_newonent_1
can't wait for the butchered, edited version that we get. maybe we'll get lucky and they won't pull a Disney.
can't wait for the butchered, edited version that we get. maybe we'll get lucky and they won't pull a Disney.
distantmantra
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bune duggy said:
Dreamworks is releasing this through their GoFish line, which has previsouly released untouched version of Millenium Actress and Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2. Expect a completely unedited, sub-only release based on past releases.
Christoff Yurievich
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I suppose that's good news. would be nice to get at least some extras, though.
kitchenmotors
Banned
I got my Casshern Ultimate Edition today. XD
This film is so beautiful! !_!
This film is so beautiful! !_!
JackFrost2012
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RiZ III said:
Luna is totally not hot. The Neo Sapiens girl, on the other hand, is the hottest Japanese girl I've ever seen, ever.
Boogie9IGN
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I just finished watching it 2 minutes ago, holy crap I loved that ending, it was beautiful
Anyone know where I could find a transcript of Tetsuya's end speech?
Anyone know where I could find a transcript of Tetsuya's end speech?
Can someone generalize the story for me? I saw it but I'm not sure I understand completely.
I liked it a lot though, cool action, honestly, the robots were kinda gay. I dug everything that Tetsuya was in though. It's unfortunate they didn't have more of Tetsuya going nuts on robots, he had like 3 minutes and thats it for his badassness. The human fights were good but sometimes the cuts were waaaaaay too fast.
To my understand the story goes like...
Anything I didn't include is because I understand it.
I liked it a lot though, cool action, honestly, the robots were kinda gay. I dug everything that Tetsuya was in though. It's unfortunate they didn't have more of Tetsuya going nuts on robots, he had like 3 minutes and thats it for his badassness. The human fights were good but sometimes the cuts were waaaaaay too fast.
To my understand the story goes like...
Daddy tries to make cure for wife, tries to make or harvest these neocells. Fails, so just captures people from Sector 7 (or whatever) and cuts them up and uses their body parts / neocells to help injured soldiers / etc. The lightning comes and makes all the body parts rejoin. They go to mysteriously already existing castle with thousands of robots and advanced technology and begin war on 'humans'. Tetsuya while in the war shot the lead mutant and his wife. But wasn't that part in the movie before and it was an old lady?
Anything I didn't include is because I understand it.
It's like this:
So yeah that's what I got from the movie.
Dr Azuma's wife is dying of an illness and he desperately tries to find a way to genetically replace faulty organs within the human body. He has an idea and needs funding for research. The military government grants him this funding because the dictator wants to live forever as well this research is just up his alley.
The neocells are cultivated from a certain ethnic group which is supposedly the original root race of all humanity, but this is also an ethnic group that they are oppressing (so it can be compared to Hitler's scientists discovering that the genetic code of the Jews hold the key to immortality) so this information is covered up.
The war is simply an excuse to gather bodies to do further research on neocells, but on the surface the soldiers see it as "ethnic cleansing". During the war Tetsuya killed tons of innocent civilians, including the wife and child of the man who would become Black King.
The actual neocell research itself was never successful, but the lightning of Casshern made the neocells work presumably because Casshern is the guardian deity of this ancient ethnic race before they forgot about him in the midst of war. So it can be seen that the lightning is a god jumpstarting the end of those who oppressed his people for too long.
As for the castle, it's just a leftover part of older history with an army of robots built but never used in some long forgotten war for some long forgotten empire. I guess it's a convenient plot device but it also shows that if you ever create something with a negative intention of action, even if you don't carry it out someone else will one day find it and use it.
The neocells are cultivated from a certain ethnic group which is supposedly the original root race of all humanity, but this is also an ethnic group that they are oppressing (so it can be compared to Hitler's scientists discovering that the genetic code of the Jews hold the key to immortality) so this information is covered up.
The war is simply an excuse to gather bodies to do further research on neocells, but on the surface the soldiers see it as "ethnic cleansing". During the war Tetsuya killed tons of innocent civilians, including the wife and child of the man who would become Black King.
The actual neocell research itself was never successful, but the lightning of Casshern made the neocells work presumably because Casshern is the guardian deity of this ancient ethnic race before they forgot about him in the midst of war. So it can be seen that the lightning is a god jumpstarting the end of those who oppressed his people for too long.
As for the castle, it's just a leftover part of older history with an army of robots built but never used in some long forgotten war for some long forgotten empire. I guess it's a convenient plot device but it also shows that if you ever create something with a negative intention of action, even if you don't carry it out someone else will one day find it and use it.
So yeah that's what I got from the movie.
Alright, I too have joined the club of confused Casshern viewers. It's a 2:20 movie, and even though I have lots of questions, I still enjoyed the movie. Definitely stylish, great DTS-ES mix. I still have some questions though
Did Prof. Azuma begin his work with noble intentions, i.e. trying to develop neo-cells, and it was only after 1 year of failure when Tetsuya says he'll go to war that Azuma becomes part of the killing? Or was the entire project always evil to begin with?
That metal lightning bolt came from the statue from the very intro right? So lightning somehow threw that lightning bolt to Azuma's home which gave the red goo life restoring power
They come across an abandoned factory from the 50 year war? Is the symbol on the building supposed to be the old Eurasian logo? Or is this supposed to be some factory WAY in the past?
Why did Tetsuya start heading to the mountains w/Luna? Were they trying to escape the city or go look for his mom?
Why did the whole neosapien army travel all the way to Azuma's house (where Luna, Azuma, and the hunchback'd neo-sapien were) How did Tetsuya fall out of the sky?
At the end, how did Luna come back to life? Or should we treat all those electric symbol/shock things as the real Casshern?
Exactly. Kiriya himself said "[It took] two months for the shoot and 6 months for the post-production. It was really intense, because we only had 6 million dollars to finish 160 scenes and 3000 cuts."
Variety reported a $5.5 million budget (prolly the budget was ~600 million yen)
http://www.variety.com/graphics/print_pdfs/0517CD.pdf
Part of the reason they were able to keep the costs so low is that they used a young team of CG artists with no previous movie experience, they did all the 3D work on PCs built from components from Akihabara, and because they filmed everything using Hi-Def 24P instead of film.
For what it's worth, the action scenes in Casshern were directed by the guy who did Gunbuster and Evangelion.
Variety reported a $5.5 million budget (prolly the budget was ~600 million yen)
http://www.variety.com/graphics/print_pdfs/0517CD.pdf
Part of the reason they were able to keep the costs so low is that they used a young team of CG artists with no previous movie experience, they did all the 3D work on PCs built from components from Akihabara, and because they filmed everything using Hi-Def 24P instead of film.
For what it's worth, the action scenes in Casshern were directed by the guy who did Gunbuster and Evangelion.
LOL!! just watched this last night...
ummmmmmm....... did not like it. it was like a feature length cross between story and style of FF and the technology of sky captain. the sky captain part I can live with, but the particularly non-Square translation made it tolerable at best, and quite ridiculous usually.
so if someone can sum up the story for me:
am I basically right.. I really tried paying attention but seriously just could not get into it and started nodding off about 1/2 way through.
ummmmmmm....... did not like it. it was like a feature length cross between story and style of FF and the technology of sky captain. the sky captain part I can live with, but the particularly non-Square translation made it tolerable at best, and quite ridiculous usually.
so if someone can sum up the story for me:
dude was killed in war, his dad made the neo-cells or whatever, the neo-cells became alive and fled to that castle with all of the robots (the blind mother helped), the dad ressurected his son who then went on to fight the bad neo-cells who created the robots to take over the world.
am I basically right.. I really tried paying attention but seriously just could not get into it and started nodding off about 1/2 way through.
karasu
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heavy liquid said:Finally got the set this afternoon. I haven't seen any pictures of it so I thought I'd take a couple and throw them up here, as it's really nicely done.
The set comes in a nice and sturdy silver/metallic box (that I managed to get out of focus..)
The three discs come in separate cardboard cases that fit inside.
Insides of the cases and back of the box
I only had a few minutes to flip through and view a couple of my favorite parts from the movie, but the picture looks great. I also tried to take a picture of the menu, but it didn't turn out right.
godly!
JackFrost2012
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borghe said:
No!
borghe said:
That's completely wrong. That's like saying the Matrix is a story about a computer programmer named Neo who is obsessed about another hacker, Morpheus. Neo goes starts hearing things and imagining things and gets caught by the feds and Neo is so schizophrenic by this point that he even thinks they're messing with his mouth.
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Deadstar:
Yeah, Shinji Higuichi was the "action scenes supervisor" and "storyboard artist: action scene" for Casshern. Apparently he did some storyboarding for Macross Plus:Movie too.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0383688/
Casshern is unquestionable well shot/composed. The makeup/art direction indeed feels like the work of a fashion photographer. The grain at different points is a great approach.
The story is different -- I think it can be polarizing or depend on how different it is. There isn't non-stop action so people say it's not an action movie, but I feel that the story is always being driven by a fairly cohesive action-movie plot. It's like the Peter Parker scenes inside of SpiderMan2, only it's not "thrown in out of place." At the same time, there's supposed to be an underlying message to the movie so it's a bit of a character drama too...
I really think it's closer to classic Macross Plus where there's great action, but also great character development. (Though, for the record, Macross Plus is still the better film).
Oh shit, thought meant you meant Hideaki Anno, thus my "wtf"
Another plus for the movie imo is the music, which was fantastic, ironically enough composed by another Evangelion Alum, Shiroh Sagisu who was already responsible for the fantastic music in the Eva TV/Movie
Im glad I bought the DVD now that I know Dreamworks will release it in the US, just looking at the cover art for GITS2 makes me ill :X
Another plus for the movie imo is the music, which was fantastic, ironically enough composed by another Evangelion Alum, Shiroh Sagisu who was already responsible for the fantastic music in the Eva TV/Movie
Im glad I bought the DVD now that I know Dreamworks will release it in the US, just looking at the cover art for GITS2 makes me ill :X
It's not clear if the US team will include the DTS track either. It's a lot of money for the JPN release DVD though, so who knows, maybe I'll sell my copy later.
What still bothers me is
What still bothers me is
why Professor Azuma killed Luna at the end? Was that supposed to show that he was crazy all along?
JackFrost2012
Banned
Pfucata said:
Your avatar looks like he's drinking a stem glass of mimosa. In any case, my reading was that
it was to force Tetsuya into a moral quandry the same as his own: having lost the person he loved most in the world, would he still be able to reject using the neo-cells?
kitchenmotors
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DeadStar said:
Haha, I had the same thought. Even though I bought Casshern after I heard Dreamworks had got the rights to a US release, I can't help but think how they'll mess up the packaging. I also doubt there will be any extras, unless they plan to sub all of them.
kitchenmotors
Banned
My little Casshern collection. XD
I really want the more expensive Casshern collectibles, but the prices are insane. X_X
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