Casshern
Check out this amazing trailer for the new Japanese movie Casshern which has some really impressive CG. Made for 5 billion yen, the movie is based on a 35-episode anime named Casshan: Robot Hunter, produced in 1973 by Tatsunoko, creators of Mach Go Go Go (Speed Racer), and Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets).
From what I can gather, the anime’s synopsis goes like this:
In a post-apocalyptic world dubbed the Dark Ages, the Earth is ruled by a bioroid named BK–1, better known as the Black King, whose legions of mechanized soldiers subjugate most of the human population. The bioroids are an artificial life form created to help save the plane from environmental catastrophe, but now they are little more than enslavers of the human race. There are, however, humans who have formed an alliance against their robot oppressors, but their means of defence aren't up to their formidable adversaries. Legend tells of a warrior named Casshan, who can fight the enemy on even terms. Only with his arrival can the human prisoners summon the will to revolt against their masters.
Luna Kazuki is a member of the resistance, searching the world for the man she loves, who happens to be the son of the scientist who developed the BK–1. When she finally meets up with him, she learns that Tetsuya Azuma has given up his mortal self to become part android to become Casshan, the only force capable of destroying the Black King. With his trusty transforming robot dog at his side, Casshan is destined to rid the world of the Black King, and to return his father’s honour. Luna also has a secret up her sleeve. Her father was a friend of Dr Azuma, and developed a weapon that can destroy the machines, which could turn the tides in the ongoing conflict between man and machine.
And I’ve managed to translate the movie’s storyline with a little help from Babelfish:
As for there, the history which we walk the world and the history where you walk differ completely. The Great War continues, as many as 50 years as for the world calls large Asian federal republic and European combination, it had divided into two camps. On end of the long fight, victory it did large Asian federal republic, controlling the East Asian Eurasian continent tract reached the point of.
But, those which are obtained with the victory in devastation of human nature, the chemical weapon and the germ weapon, the sequela of the chemical injury and the virus and the radioactivity which the nucleus brings were just the ground which becomes rough. Does the mankind sitting down, just receive loose end? There is no road of playback?
The person who lectures about solution was. It is Higashi doctor. He creates all regions of the human unrestrictedly, about “new structure cell” theory is lectured; help is looked up at academic society. Higashi doctor applied because of the wife green which suffers from the heavy illness, this research utilized by any means. Unless will not you take vesting, the hygienic ministry which dismisses the theory of the doctor.
But, research started with the help of the troop authorized personnel whom it tries to utilize the theory because of selfish desire. And intention the new life body and the new structure human who are born from the inevitable or experimental place. The mankind depressed to the territory of God. But, it was the expectation which relieves the mankind the “new structure cell” had been about to be able to lead the road of falling into ruin to the mankind …
The Matrix you say? That’s just the boring stuff I learnt in linear algebra, isn’t it?