>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.
[..]The movie opens with a narration stating there has been a fifty-year war consisting of the Eastern Federation against Europa using an array of different weapons: Nuclear, biological and chemical, which have heavily polluted the environment. A photoshoot follows, introducing Tetsuya, his father Dr. Azuma, Tetsuya's fiancée Luna, her father Dr. Kozuki, and Tetsuya's mother Midori. Tetsuya is in the war to spite his father; Dr. Azuma is a lead scientist to the Eastern Federation's new dictatorship government, and in a presentation towards investors he reveals that he has discovered Neo Cells, human cells that can form any body part and be transplanted without rejection[...]
