Movie review: Casshern(a.k.a. Kyashān)

AKA
Kyashān

Summary

In a world with an alternate history, a great war finally comes to an end leaving the earth diseased and polluted.

The geneticist Dr. Azuma vies for support from the government for his neo-cell treatment that he claims can rejuvenate the body and regenerate humankind. The government leaders, guarding their own deeply entrenched powers, turn down the professor.

Driven to complete his work, Dr. Azuma accepts a secret offer from a sinister faction of the powerful military. After an incident occurs in Dr. Azuma's lab, a race of mutant humans known as the Shinzo Ningen are unleashed upon the world.

Now only the warrior known as Casshern, reincarnated with an invincible body, stands between the Shinzo Ningen and a world on the brink of annihilation.

Based on a 1973 Japanese animé, Shinzo Ningen Casshân.

Cast
Yusuke Iseya - Casshern/Tetsuya Azuma
Kumiko Aso - Luna Kozuki
Akira Terao - Kotaro Azuma-hakase
Kanako Higuchi - Midori Azuma
Fumiyo Kohinata - Kozuki-hakase
Hiroyuki Miyasako - Akubon
Jun Kaname - Barashin
Hidetoshi Nishijima - Lieutenant Colonel Kamijo
Mitsuhiro Oikawa - Kaoru Naito
Susumu Terajima - Sakamoto
Hideji Otaki - Kamijô-Sôsai
Tatsuya Mihashi - Furoi hakase
Toshiaki Karasawa - Burai
Mayumi Sada - Sagurê

Movie review: Volcano High(a.k.a. Hwasan High School)

AKA
Hwasan'go
Hwasan High School
WaSanGo

Summary

It revolves around a troublemaking high school student named Kim Kyung-soo who finds himself transferred to the last school that will take him, the prestigious Volcano High.

It's an institution whose students display an incredible talent in martial arts, with a few demonstrating even more mysterious psychic powers, notably Jang Ryang and Song Hak-rim.

Kim is drawn into fights between different clubs, a Manual that is told to hold great power, and a group of teachers that will do whatever possible to keep the students in line.

Cast
Hyuk Jang - Kim, Kyeong-su
Min-a Shin - Yu, Chae-i
Su-ro Kim - Jang, Ryang
Sang-woo Kwone - Song Hak-Rim
Hyo-jin Kong - So, Yo-seon
Sang-hun Jeong - Golbangi
Hyeong-jong Kim - Shim, Ma
Shi-ah Chae - Yo-mi