Japanese Movies: 16 June 08 - Casshern

On Monday night, SBS shows Casshern, which has an awesome storyline that gets in just about everything we love about Japanese film:

In a futuristic world, the Great Asian Federation takes control over the entire Eurasia continent after a 50-year war which has left the world extremely polluted, causing diseases with no cure. Geneticist Azuma is trying to developing a “neo-cell” that rejuvenates damaged human parts. The research receives a backing from powerful but aging military leaders, while Azuma is only interested in saving his ailing pacifist wife, Midori. Their nationalistic son Tetsuya is killed in the ethnocentric government’s military action against rebels. Lightning strikes Azuma’s human tissue tank and somehow produces a new race of mutants.

Excellent! Paul Ross of News of the World, whatever that is, called it “better than both Matrix sequels put together”. With subtitles (although if you check out Wikipedia, apparently the official subtitles are pretty average – let’s hope SBS does better!)

Casshern

When: Monday June 16 from 11:50pm
Where: SBS