With the DVD release of Kaz Kiriya's sci-fi epic Casshern rapidly approaching - just a week to go - some more details have leaked out. The basic edition, due October 23rd, will be a three disc set with the film available on the first disc and the other two discs filled with behind the scenes footage, making of featurettes and cast / crew interviews. It was announced long ago that the feature would be subtitled but I wouldn't bank on that being the case for the bonus material. If someone who reads Japanese would care to take a look at this and tell us what it says on the matter - a complete list of features would be nice, too - we'd appreciate it greatly.
Not speaking Japanese I could be wrong on this next bit, but it certainly appears to me that the bottom section of the page linked above is detailing an 'Ultimate Edition' release of the film due November 7th. I haven't seen listings for that in any of the online retailers so I have no clue what may be included ... once again, a translation would be lovely ...
For those not in the know on this film, take a look at the trailer here. Then just go ahead and order the thing here.
Oh, and about the extras. Well, for one thing they are NOT subtitled.
Here's a very crude list of what should be on the discs;
Disc 1:
- The movie (obviously)
- One audio commentary, at least four people including the director, and script writer. Most likely no subs for this.
Disc 2:
- Making of (probably pretty long to warrant its own disc)
- Main cast&staff profiles
- Main cast interview(s)
- Cast&staff list
- Trailers, TV spots..
Disc 3: (I was only able to translate two [out of four, I think], hope someone else can translate them better)
- "Casshern project book" (not sure what this is)
- Conceptual designs
My guessing: The third disc should be about the art of casshern, so I'd expect galleries and perhaps some kind of interviews with the visual artists.
Don't kill me if some of these turn out to be wrong :)
its just a revised name for the edition we knew about : theyve upgraded it slightly to 3 discs from 2... thats all thats changed...