Casshern
| Movie | |
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| German title | Casshern |
| Original title | キ ャ シ ャ ー ン |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 142 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kazuaki Kiriya |
| script | Kazuaki Kiriya |
| production | Hideji Miyajima |
| camera | Kazuaki Kiriya |
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Casshern ( Japanese キ ャ シ ャ ー ン , Kyashān ) is a live action based on the 1973 Japanese anime series Shinzō Ningen Casshern , which was remade in 2008 by Casshern Sins . The plot was only roughly taken over in order to be able to present it in full length. The film was shown for the first time in Germany on August 3, 2005 as part of the Fantasy Film Festival .
Like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow or Sin City , the film uses the digital backlot technique, in which the actors are filmed in front of a green screen and the backgrounds are digitally inserted throughout the entire film. This underlines the manga / anime style.
action
After 50 years of war, the Greater Asian Republic finally defeated the European Union , with the exception of a few rebels. But there is not much more than a contested battlefield left (other countries or continents are not mentioned). Most of the survivors are terminally ill and a solution to their problems is urgently needed. The researcher Dr. Azuma achieves the breakthrough. With the help of genetic engineering, he is able to create human "spare parts" from so-called neo cells - diseased organs can be replaced without a donor. When the government refuses to finance his projects, not least of which he tries to save his dying wife Midori, he desperately accepts funds from a military organization. This plans to take up his idea and generate super soldiers.
Meanwhile, his rebellious son Tetsuya, against his father's will, is driven to volunteer for military service on the fighting front, from where he returns after a year as a corpse to his grieving parents and his traumatized fiancée Luna. Shortly before Tetsuya was buried, a lightning strike caused an accident in the externally financed research center, which resulted in mutated neo-humans from the genetic nutrient solution created. The government or the military immediately executes the "incidents" trying to escape and pursues the refugees. Some neo-humans flee in the car in which Midori was on the way to the body of her son, who is laid out in front of the research center.
Dr. Azuma learns that his wife has been kidnapped. He dips his dead son in the same nutrient solution from which the neo-humans rose to revive him. Luna and her father, who with Dr. Azuma friendly scientist Dr. Kozuki, attend Tetsuya's "resurrection". Dr. Kozuki develops state-of-the-art, novel armor to stabilize Tetsuya's muscles that would tear his body apart from uncontrolled growth and make him a stronger fighter.
The few remaining representatives of the new race are fleeing over mountains and find a building with weapons and technology in an urban landscape marked by the long war and largely depopulated, in which their leader condemns the elimination of their brothers, revenge on humanity and the elimination and the War swears. Those who now call themselves "Neo Sapiens" equip themselves with an army of fighting machines and send them against the cities of the people.
Scientists, robot engineers, nuclear physicists and weapons specialists are kidnapped by the Neo Sapiens to work in their robot factories. One of them is Dr. Kozuki, who is visited by a female and disabled Neo Sapiens. The remaining Neo Sapiens recognizes Luna, who helped him to escape. Before the Neo Sapiens with Dr. Kozuki disappear, Tetsuya wakes up and injures the female Neo Sapiens in a fight. When the two leave without the scientist, the scientist prophesies before his death from the injury inflicted on him that there must be a reason for Tetsuya and that he should find out his destiny. Through the mutation / resuscitation and his armor, he has received supernatural powers and speeds with which he competes against the Neo Sapiens and their fighting machines in order to find his mother again.
When Tetsuya and Luna flee and rest by a lake, she faints from contamination. A man appears and takes them both to his village, where Tetsuya also fought before he died. There the doctor tells him that the village once lived in peace and prosperity because they believed in Casshern. However, because of border disputes with their neighbors, they lost confidence. Soldiers attack the village. Tetsuya prevents a soldier from killing a boy and asks him why they are attacking this village. He says that he is only following orders and that Tetsuya is a deserter. He is killed by the doctor who asks Tetsuya if he can protect the village. The second of the four Neo Sapiens also appears and wants to hold Tetsuya accountable for the death of the female Neo Sapiens. During the fight, some villagers are kidnapped by the soldiers, including Luna, who was followed into the container by the remaining Neo Sapiens. Tetsuya is distracted by Luna's kidnapping and wants to prevent her. When the gate to the city closes behind him, the Neo Sapiens wants to hold the city accountable, what Tetsuya hears and whereupon he returns. If he wins, he asks him to help the city. The Neo Sapiens introduces himself as Barashin, after which Tetsuya calls himself Casshern. Both inflict fatal injuries. Like the late female Neo Sapiens, Barashin sees an image of peace with which he forgives before his death.
The containers dock on a train in which the people are shot by soldiers. The Neo Sapiens flees with Luna from the container into an adjacent one. He is fatally injured, but they are killed by Dr. Rescued Azuma and went to the research laboratory where the Neo Sapiens were made when lightning struck. While Dr. Azuma is threatened with a weapon, to make experiments on Neo Sapiens in order to achieve the goal, the lightning disintegrates and Tetsuya aka Casshern falls from the sky. The leader of the Neo Sapiens appears with his robot army and takes Tetsuya / Casshern with him as his brother, accompanied by Luna, who supports the retarded Neo Sapiens; the latter then dies with his image of harmony and peace in mind, next to Luna and the leader. Tetsuya sees his mother.
When the leader of the Neo Sapiens confronts the commander in the final human versus machine battle, the latter admits that the Neo Sapiens are human and not the product of Dr. Azuma's neo-cell research. The Neo Sapiens are the ancestors of humans, because in Eurasia, Zone 7, the rest of the ethical cleansing, civilization began. The Commander admits the research was only because of his father's greed for longer life. Tetsuya tries to stop the bomb that the Neo Sapiens sent off and fails. He remembers killing the Neo Sapiens leader's wife when the bomb went off. The commander releases a hand grenade. When Tetsuya "comes back", his father wants to take his mother home with him because she "needs treatment". Tetsuya wants to prevent a resuscitation. Then Dr. Azuma Luna.
Conception
As a so-called live-action anime , Casshern uses some optical means borrowed from the anime style . For example, speedlines are used to make the movements appear even more dynamic. But the camera also moves very freely in space, as is easily possible with drawn animes.
The design of the characters has been heavily revised compared to the original. As an allusion, the white helmet used in the original Shinzō Ningen Casshern series lies in the middle of a shelf in Dr. Kozumi's laboratory. In addition to such things, numerous writings of different origins can be found, including German sentences written in Fraktur such as “In memory of my deceased wife” and “For all soldiers”. The digital backdrops and architectural backgrounds cite European architectural models that include elements of Russian revolutionary architecture, Italian fascism and National Socialist Germany .
Reviews
“Real film adaptation of an anime from the 1970s with considerable special effects. The main drawback is that the film can hardly channel its flood of ideas: It touches on many topics (terrorism, fascism, redemption myths, peaceful coexistence) without going into any depth. "
Web links
- Casshern in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl R. Kegler, "Godzilla meets Poelzig" in: archimaera (issue 2/2009)
- ↑ Casshern. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .