# Casshern (2004)

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**Original title**: *キャシャーン*
**Runtime**: 141 min
**Genres**: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Kazuaki Kiriya
**Written by**: Shoutarou Suga, Kazuaki Kiriya, Dai Sato
**Starring**: Yūsuke Iseya, Kumiko Aso, Akira Terao, Kanako Higuchi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Hiroyuki Miyasako

> *When a hero falls a legend will rise*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A single test tube glows in a wartime lab. The earth cracks beneath mushroom clouds. Neo-cells ferment across battlefields.

Tetsuya rises from a morgue drawer as Casshern, chrome joints whirring. He faces his father’s monsters in a world where every sky rains agony.

Kiriya’s neo-noir cyberpunk twitches like a glitching memory.

**Mood tags**: mindfuck, outsider, surreal

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