Minggu, 22 April 2012
Casshern (キャシャーン Kyashān) is a 2004 Japanese tokusatsu film adaptation of the anime series of the same name. It was written and directed by Kazuaki Kiriya. It stars Yusuke Iseya as Tetsuya Azuma/Casshern, Kumiko Aso as Luna Kozuki, Toshiaki Karasawa as Burai, Mayumi Sada as Saguree, and Jun Kaname as Barashin.
Plot
A fifty-year war between the Eastern Federation and Europa ends, with
the Federation taking control of the Eurasian continent. A resistance movement
rises in Zone 7 and the Federation mobilizes its military. However, the
war and heavy industry have exhausted the Federation and polluted the environment.
In the Federation Health Ministry, Dr. Azuma presents his discovery of Neo Cells, human cells that, in theory, can be converted to regenerate human tissue. The Neo Cells are only found in the genome
of "a primitive ethnic group." He states that he can develop the Neo
Cells for human use, but is quickly denounced. But Kaoru Naito, from
Nikko Hairal Inc., offers Dr. Azuma sponsorship. Azuma is persuaded when
Naito insinuates that accepting will also help Dr. Azuma cure his wife,
Midori.
A photo shoot at the Azuma Residence follows, commemorating Tetsuya's
(Azuma's son) engagement to Luna. They argue about Tetsuya joining the
military. One year later, Tetsuya is deployed to Eurasia Zone 7. He
kills civilians, and is killed by a booby trap.
Azuma invites Luna's father, Dr. Kozuki, to his lab. They are rivals,
since Azuma's cell research makes Kozuki's armor research redundant.
However, although organs have been grown from the Neo Cells, they are
not usable. Meanwhile, Midori, now almost blind, is visited by Tetsuya's
ghost. Shortly after she is told of his death. His body is sent to Azuma's lab.
Tetsuya's ghost sees the body. A lightning bolt strikes the facility
and stimulates the Neo Cells, causing the limbs and organs to
restructure into humans. Naito calls for the military to kill them. But a
few escape and encounter Midori in her car, which they hijack.
Azuma carries Tetsuya's body into his lab. Tetsuya is resurrected, but his condition is unstable, and he is brought to Kozuki's residence. Kozuki puts him in prototype battle armor.
The Neo humans travel to Zone 7, sheltering in a derelict castle,
where they discover a robot army. Calling themselves "Neo-Sapiens," they
vow revenge and reactivate the robots to wage war upon humanity.
Kozuki's residence is attacked and Tetsuya is awakened. He kills a
female Neo-Sapien, Saguree, but cannot save Kozuki. He escapes with Luna
but is confronted by a robot battalion. After eliminating them Tetsuya
battles the leader, Burai only to lose consciousness. When he comes to,
he and Luna go to Zone Seven, but the route is contaminated, and Luna falls ill.
Tetsuya is found in the forest by a doctor and led to a nearby
village in Zone Seven, where the doctor treats Luna. It is revealed the
people of Zone Seven aren't terrorists at all, but have been slaughtered
for decades because of the government's discriminatory policies. The
doctor, in conversation, informs Tetsuya of a local legend of a
protective deity named "Casshern"-a deity whose statue makes numerous
appearances in the movie. Tetsuya fights Barashin as the village comes
under attack by the military and Neo-sapiens, and it is here that he
first refers to himself as Casshern. While both suffer injuries in the
fight, Casshern is the victor and Barashin is killed. Fighting Barashin
has caused Tetsuya to lose Luna, who escaped with a Neo-sapien and
eventually found her way to a train full of captured villagers from Zone
Seven. Here, Luna and the Neo-sapien are confronted by a bereaved
scientist who blames the Neo-sapiens for the loss of his daughter. Luna
is rescued by Dr. Azuma, but the Neo-sapien is injured.
A coup d’état
takes place and General Kamijo's son takes over, while in the
laboratory Naito reveals that Neo Cells are not what they seem. The Neo
Cells were acquired from the slaughtered "original humans" of Zone Seven
for the purposes of prolonging General Kamijo and his cohorts' lives,
and the Neo Cell culture did not in fact create the Neo-Sapiens. It
simply rejoined the body parts that were harvested from the victims of
Zone Seven after being struck by the stone lightning bolt. Even though
Dr. Azuma had been spearheading the macabre experiments, he is unable to
explain what has happened. As they talk, the stone lightning bolt
crumbles and Casshern appears to fall from the sky into the laboratory,
which is now in ruins.
Burai arrives with an airship and abducts Luna, Casshern and the
dying Neo-sapien, leaving a now fatally wounded Naito, Dr. Azuma and
General Kamijo's son alone. Burai gives his reasons for hating humanity,
and Casshern finds his mother, but she's apparently dead. Burai
launches a giant machine that appears to be set to self-destruct, which
slaughters countless soldiers. Casshern uses all his strength to stop
the machine, although it still detonates, albeit away from any urban or
heavily populated area.
In the finale, the General's son kills Burai with a grenade after
revealing he was human all along, and it is learned that Tetsuya, during
his military service, slaughtered Burai's family. Casshern stops his
father from resurrecting his mother, so Dr. Azuma retaliates by shooting
Luna in the head. Luna is revived by the blood of Burai, only after
Casshern kills his father. The souls of the dead come onto Casshern as
he and Luna embrace each other. Luna rips out Tetsuya's containment suit
and a pillar of light fires into space. It ends with a monologue by
Tetsuya while the screen alternates between the pillar of light making
its way through space & crashing down onto another planet and
flashbacks of happier times for the characters. The film ends with home
footage of the characters in happier times.
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