Casshern is based on 1973 Japanese animé. What I love about Japanese movies and fiction is the blending of all genres. This movie has Steampunk, Cyberpunk, and Biopunk. The mix is so complete that you as a watcher, I just bought it all. I was in the movie from minute one.

The visuals are amazing brilliant and detailed. The story, a little confusing, but I by the end I think I know what was going on. The action scenes were done right and there were enough to keep me on the edge of my seat. The subtitles were well done (not that I know Japanese).

Here is my take on the plot, I may have missed something, but as I said before, I think I knew what was what by the end.

In a land ravaged by 50 years of war with Europe, a geneticist struggles to save his wife from going blind and worse. He has discovered the Neo-Cell (I think what we would call Stem Cells) that are able to be tough to grown into any human organ or body part. However, the Neo-Cells are rare. Only one small ethic group posses the Neo-Cells and they are terrorists and the government will not acknowledge them.

However, the geneticist enters into an agreement with the military who round up this ethic minority so that the Neo-Cells can be harvested and studied.

In a dark lab the geneticist has swimming pools of chopped up body parts stewing in Neo-Cells. His hope is that they will regenerate. Then a lighting bolt strikes the pool and the bodies re-knit and walk out in a very zombie like fashion: The Neo-Sapiens are born.

The Neo-Sapiens want revenge and find a discarded war machine of Europe and chaos is sprung upon the people. That is until, a hero is born.

This is a must see.

The Soulless Machine