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casshern

Here is Casshern, a "live-action anime" with an intriguing trailer. Useful info from Eternal Gaze:
Live action Casshern movie, an adaptation of the Shinzo Ningen Casshern anime TV series(...)
Incarnations:
  • 1970s live action super hero programme
  • 1973: 35 episode anime TV series.
  • 1993: 4 episode anime OAV series in 1993.
It looked familiar, and now I know why; this is an adolescents' cartoon that's being given a gritty update, à la Batman's first two cinematic treatments. Very exciting. I'm reading the Japanese site, a pre-caffeinated process that is open to much definitional slippage, and it appears that Kiriya Kazuaki is managing the story, photography, and directing. Previously he was in charge (Japanese google-cache, FWIW) of the group doing Utada Hikaru's most recent (read: "best") music videos: Sakura Drops, Traveling, and Final Distance. This gives me new hope for what otherwise could be another schlock aidoru-movie. (I encountered this twice in 24 hrs, first via DPH (I was dumpster-diving in the archives), and once by JP)

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