Casshern story
Casshern (キャシャーン, Kyashān) is a 2004 Japanese tokusatsu superhero film adaptation of the anime series of the same name. It was written and directed by Kazuaki Kiriya. Synopsis: A race of artificially made humans wage war on mankind.
24 total · 7 major · 17 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| anthropogenic existential risk to civilization | major | Humankind created a new race of humans, called Neo Sapiens, that subsequently rose up and made a bid for world domination, trying to exterminate humanity in the process. |
| coping with the death of someone | major | Much was made of people losing their loved ones as evidenced by the numerous "so-and-so grieves over the dead body of their beloved so-and-so" scenes. |
| genocide | major | The Eastern Federation was actively conducting an ethnic cleansing in Zone 7. The Neo Sapiens launched a campaign to exterminate all run-of-the-mill humans. |
| misanthropy | major | The Neo Human leader Burai waxed with contempt for humanity and sought to exterminate the human race with his formidable robot army. |
| revival long after death | major | Tetsuya being resurrected by means of "Neo Cells" (i.e. stem cells) constitutes a main novelty of the story. |
| speculative biotechnology | major | A main novelty of the film is Dr. Azuma's application of special "Neo Cells" (i.e. stem cells) to regenerate human tissue. |
| war | major | The Neo Sapiens waged war on the Eastern Federation. The Eastern Federation mobilized its military against a rebel region. The story is set in the immediate aftermath of a fifty-year war between two rival world powers: the Eastern Federation and Europa. |
| coping with a loved one being gravely ill | minor | Dr. Azuma longed to cure his evidently terminally ill wife, Midori, of whatever it was that ailed her. |
| coping with the death of a child | minor | Dr. Azuma mourned his son's death. |
| coping with the death of a parent | minor | Luna mourned her father's death. |