{"id":691,"date":"2004-07-01T17:37:48","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2020-11-08T15:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T20:25:29","slug":"midnight_eye_casshern_review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"midnight eye casshern review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">last post for the day. midnight eye has a long-winded (as they usually are) but praising review of the japanese movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteye.com\/reviews\/casshern.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">casshern<\/a>. the review summarizes the story rather well, which was up til now still rather obscure. the review also duly compares the movie to its original source, the straight-forward 70\u2019s anime <i>casshan: robot hunter<\/i>, and points out that the connections between the two are rather shallow at best. this is however a good thing, as the director kazuaki kiriya has taken the simplistic good vs. evil plotline of the source and developed a dense and convoluted story of the inherent weaknesses of humanity\u2026that also happens to look really swish. the production design in and of itself merits a look at the movie, so definitely check out <i>casshern<\/i>. the movie is both set to be released in the states and remade\u2026potentially by kiriya himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteye.com\/reviews\/casshern.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">casshern review<\/a> (via midnight eye)<br>&gt; <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/journal\/archives\/000605.html\" target=\"_blank\">older casshern reviews<\/a><br>&gt; <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.casshern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">casshern website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/casshern3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/casshern3.jpg 520w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/casshern3-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/casshern3-250x130.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/casshern3-347x180.jpg 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last post for the day. midnight eye has a long-winded (as they usually are) but praising review of the japanese movie casshern. the review summarizes the story rather well, which was up til now still rather obscure. the review also duly compares the movie to its original source, the straight-forward 70\u2019s anime casshan: robot hunter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cin3ma-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8171,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/8171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}